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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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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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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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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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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.
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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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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 might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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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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