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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

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
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
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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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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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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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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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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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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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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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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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What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.
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