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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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Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
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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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Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.
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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 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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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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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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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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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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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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I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.
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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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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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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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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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Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row.
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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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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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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