Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield (born October 14, 1888 in New Zealand; died January 9, 1923) was a famous author.
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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.
- Letter (April 24, 1907) Collected Letters
- To work—to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
- Letter to Bertrand Russell (Dec. 7, 1916) Collected Letters
- 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.
- Letter to her future husband, John Middleton Murry (July 1917) Collected Letters
- I'm a writer first and a woman after.
- Letterto her husband, John Middleton Murry (Dec. 3, 1920)
- Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
- The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) Dec. 19, 1920
- Were we positive, eager, real—alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.
- Letter to her husband, John Middleton Murry (October 11, 1922)
- Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) Oct. 14, 1922.
- When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
- The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) Oct. 1922
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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 of attitude.
- I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
- I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
- I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.
- If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
- Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
- Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
- 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.
- Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
- Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
- The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.
- The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
- Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
- To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
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External links
- Katherine Mansfield at the New Zealand Book Council
- Short Bio
- Poems of Katherine Mansfield at eMule
- Bliss, and Other Stories online
- The Garden Party and Other Stories online
- Katherine Mansfield at Project Gutenberg
- The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (A hypertext exploration)
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