Katherine Mansfield Quotes - Page 5

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• 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 real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Real, Play, Cities

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

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  Party, Flower, Garden

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “The Garden Party (Centaurus Classics) [The 50 greatest novels of all time - #02]”, p.41, Katherine Mansfield

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• If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple - you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.

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  Love You, Simple, Mushrooms

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

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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. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

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  Life, Thinking, Desire

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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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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  Work, Delight, Infinite

  Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick, Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan (1989). “Katherine Mansfield: selected letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing

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• Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

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  Book, Reading, Consciousness

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• 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.

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  Writing, People, Effort

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

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  Stars, Regret, Sunset

  Katherine Mansfield, Ian Alistair Gordon (1974). “Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield”

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• I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Work, Believe, Passion

  Katherine Mansfield (1951). “Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922”

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• Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

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  Happiness, Eye, Hands

  "The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield".

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

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  Winter, Fire, Snow

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

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  Hate, Real, Writing

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.

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  Writing, Moon, Light

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.315, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

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  Couple, Women, Months

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• Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

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  Mother, Mean, Silence

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

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  Alive, Enough

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• Outside the sky is light with stars

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  Stars, Light, Sky

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD – The Ultimate Short Stories & Poetry Collection: 100+ Titles in One Volume (Literature Classics Series): Prelude, Bliss, At the Bay, The Garden Party, A Birthday, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses and many more”, p.384, e-artnow

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• By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

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  Mean, Sea, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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