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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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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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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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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
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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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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.
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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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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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