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Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917, she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at age 34.

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Earth, Inspirational, Opinions, Positive, Thing, Wisdom

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Firsts, Woman, Writer

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

Die, Dies, Left, Ought, Time

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

Darling, Escape, Heart, Sibling, Sister, Tucked

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

Bottom, Greatest Love, Hear, Heart, Might, Touch

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Come, Different, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, See

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

Spiritual, Hurt, Pain, Forever, World

I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.

Alone, Artist, Cutting, Doors, Live

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

False, Love, Mushrooms, Tell, Toadstools

That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

Easy, Near Death, Fearful, Die, Everybody

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

Certain, Flower, Garden, Knowing, Party, Roses

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

Count, Effort, Imagine, People, Write, Writing

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Book, Literacy, Reading, Same, Shares

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Becoming, Capable, Encouraging, Want

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Failure, Immense, Importance, Laugh, Laughing, Learn

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one?. . . But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Asking, Effort, Keep, Strong, Wish

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

England, Food, Islands, Merely, Swimming, Warm

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

Driving, Eternity, Saws, Taxi

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.

Back, Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Wallowing

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Head, Important, Impression, Ostrich, Ostriches, Wish

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