Katherine Mansfield Quotes

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• Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
• I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
• Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
• Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
• The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
• Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
• How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
• It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
• Regret is an appalling waste of time.
• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
• I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a…
• If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
• The mind I love must have wild places.
• My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.
• You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
• To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
• Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
• It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to…
• By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof -…
• Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

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