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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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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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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The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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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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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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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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My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.
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What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
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September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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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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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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In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
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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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