“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
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Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved to England at age 19, mixed with modernist writers there, lead a very modernist life there, and died relatively young of tuberculosis (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield>Wikipedia</a>).
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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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“The mind I love must have wild places.”
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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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“Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
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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 of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
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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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“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.”
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“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... 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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“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. 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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“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 undergon...”
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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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“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
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“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”
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“Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.”
“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.”
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“Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.”
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“This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.”
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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.”
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