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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.
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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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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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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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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There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
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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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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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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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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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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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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
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The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
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