Best Quotes by Katherine Mansfield (Top 10)
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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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The mind I love must have wild places.
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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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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
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What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise â it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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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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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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More Katherine Mansfield Quotes
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I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.
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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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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
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It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
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This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
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The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
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I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
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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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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
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I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
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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 energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.
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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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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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