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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Poet
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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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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