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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?
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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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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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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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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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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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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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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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.
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Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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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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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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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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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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Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.
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Outside the sky is light with stars
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