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Katherine Mansfield

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Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.


— Katherine Mansfield


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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.


— Katherine Mansfield


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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.


— Katherine Mansfield


#carefully #couples #every #go #just

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.


— Katherine Mansfield


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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.


— Katherine Mansfield


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I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.


— Katherine Mansfield


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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.


— Katherine Mansfield


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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.


— Katherine Mansfield


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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.


— Katherine Mansfield


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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.


— Katherine Mansfield


#becoming #capable #i #i am #myself






About Katherine Mansfield

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Did you know about Katherine Mansfield?

Bliss the story that lent its name to her second collection of stories in 1920 was also publiKatherine Mansfieldd in 1918. However Mansfield wrote only one story during her time there (Something Childish But Very Natural) before Murry was recalled to London to declare bankruptcy. The Dictionary of National Biography reports that Katherine Mansfield now came to feel that her attitude to life had been unduly rebellious and Katherine Mansfield sought during the days that remained to her to renew and compose her spiritual life.

During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the age of 34. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom Katherine Mansfield became close friends. Among her best-known stories are "The Garden Party" "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Fly".

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