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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 do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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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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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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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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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.
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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing 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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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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Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.
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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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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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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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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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