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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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Poet
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Childish
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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 only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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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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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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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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