Katherine Mansfield quotes - page 2

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. (Katherine Mansfield)
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. View quote
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The mind I love must have wild places. View quote
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. View quote
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When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. View quote
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. View quote
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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi. View quote
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You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul. View quote
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What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know.... But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead-yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all. View quote
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write. View quote
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer' is enough. (Katherine Mansfield)
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can't I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening-where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I'd like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one. View quote
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Were we positive, eager, real - alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. View quote
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I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead. View quote
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery. This is what I must do. View quote
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Warm, eager, living life - to be rooted in life - to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less. View quote
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I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. View quote
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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. View quote
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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. (Katherine Mansfield)
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. View quote
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I feel happy - deep down. All is well. View quote
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming so that I may be (and here I have stopped and waited and waited and it's no good - there's only one phrase that will do) a child of the sun. View quote
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The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few instances of intensity but that is all. I want to find a world in which these instances are united. View quote
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