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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
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In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.
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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.
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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
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The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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