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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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
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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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