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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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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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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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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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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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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins.
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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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