Katherine Mansfield Short Quotes

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Now who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?

Katherine Mansfield
He stands, smiling encouragement, like a clumsy dentist.

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But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

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There can be no harm
In just remembering — that is all.

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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

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I must say I hate money, but it's the lack of it I hate most.

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To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

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That's all life is — something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

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I have just partaken of that saddest of things — a cup of weak tea.

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We cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write

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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

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You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.

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The wind is like a great bird tumbling over the sea with bright flashing wings.

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The icicles at dawn this morning were the color of opals — blue lit with fire.

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As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

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Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy — so utterly without a sense of humor?

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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been — Nothing!

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I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

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My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

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For the last two weeks I have written scarcely anything. I have been idle. I have failed.

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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.

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There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

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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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Fairylike, the fire rose in two branched flames like the golden antlers of some enchanted stag.

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Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

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

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To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

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