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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?
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
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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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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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My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.
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Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
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The mind I love must have wild places.
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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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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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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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Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.
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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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September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.
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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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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 feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.
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