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The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

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
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Wish
Strong
Remember
Enough
Great
Thing
Provided
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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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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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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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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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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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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.
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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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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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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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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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