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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
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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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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if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.
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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
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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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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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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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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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... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.
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My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.
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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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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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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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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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