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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.
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
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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Ostriches
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Burying
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In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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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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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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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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It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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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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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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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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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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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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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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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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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
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