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Katherine Mansfield (23)

Birth:	14th October, 1888
Death:	9th January, 1923
Nationality:	New Zealander
Profession:	Writer

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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 for wallowing in.

  Katherine Mansfield

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

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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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• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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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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• Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is 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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• E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He’s a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain’t going to be no tea.

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

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• Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

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• I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

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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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• 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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• 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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• When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

  Katherine Mansfield

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• Life never becomes a habit to me. It’s always a marvel.

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• What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

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

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