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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
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
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In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
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What happiness it is to listen to rain at night joyful relief, ease a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.
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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
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I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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Outside the sky is light with stars
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