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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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
Better
Nothing
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Twaddle
Write
Anything
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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.
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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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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What happiness it is to listen to rain at night joyful relief, ease a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't 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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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
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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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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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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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Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
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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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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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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 saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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