Katherine Mansfield Quotes
Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, was a New Zealand poet and writer of short fiction, who wrote under the name Katherine Mansfield.
(1888 - 1923)
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
[Peace]
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
[Acceptance]
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
[Friendship]
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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
[Friendship]
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I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
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I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.
[Solitude]
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
[Self Knowledge]
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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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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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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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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It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. I do hope I'll be able to keep in it long enough to do some really good work. I'm sick of people dying who promise well.
[Life]
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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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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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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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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
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Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing.
[Regrets]
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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.
[Courage]
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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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