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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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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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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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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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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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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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