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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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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.
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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.
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Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row.
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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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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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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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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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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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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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There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
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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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Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.
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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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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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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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