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It's not your fault. Don't think that. It's just fate. — Katherine Mansfield

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

Roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. — Katherine Mansfield

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. — Katherine Mansfield

Ma Parker stood, looking up and down. The icy wind blew out her apron into a balloon. And now it began to rain. There was nowhere. — Katherine Mansfield

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

Outside the sky is light with stars — Katherine Mansfield

Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's so delicious. — Katherine Mansfield

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy. — Katherine Mansfield

Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand. — Katherine Mansfield

Do you feel in this letter my love for you today - It is as warm as a bird's nest. — Katherine Mansfield

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF. — Katherine Mansfield

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing — Katherine Mansfield

Got a little - well - feeble as you might say. Of course, she was never dangerous; she was the sweetest old lady. — Katherine Mansfield

Regret is an appalling waste of time. — Katherine Mansfield

Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama. — Katherine Mansfield

turned away, took out his cigarette case, but remembering how the — Katherine Mansfield

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

How beautiful she loked, but there was nobody to see, nobody. — Katherine Mansfield

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. — Katherine Mansfield

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

I'm a writer first and a woman after. — Katherine Mansfield

Hail, brother! All hail, Thou Mighty One!" A velvety bass voice came booming over the water. Great — Katherine Mansfield

Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence. — Katherine Mansfield

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. — Katherine Mansfield

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

The heavens opened for the sunset to-night. When I had thought the day folded and sealed, came a burst of heavenly bright petals. — Katherine Mansfield

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi. — Katherine Mansfield

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

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. — Katherine Mansfield

... A wet night. They are going home together under an umbrella. They stop on the door to press their wet cheeks together. — Katherine Mansfield

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. — Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery. — Katherine Mansfield

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

It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay. — Katherine Mansfield

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

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. — Katherine Mansfield

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all. — Katherine Mansfield

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

Children are unaccountable little creatures. — Katherine Mansfield

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

Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'? — Katherine Mansfield

Oh,' said the little girl, 'my head's on your heart; I can hear it going. What a big heart you've got, father dear. — Katherine Mansfield

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. — Katherine Mansfield

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

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses. — Katherine Mansfield

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse. — Katherine Mansfield

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it. — Katherine Mansfield

I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much. — Katherine Mansfield

The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel. — Katherine Mansfield

When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they had long beams like wings ... — Katherine Mansfield

That? It's the clock striking! — Katherine Mansfield

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? — Katherine Mansfield

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. — Katherine Mansfield

The mater, with her scissors outspread to snap the head of a dead something or other, stopped at the sight of Reggie. — Katherine Mansfield

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

fixed Alice with her eyes — Katherine Mansfield

I couldn't keep myself in, and I asked her if she'd rather I ... didn't get married. — Katherine Mansfield

It is, after all, that old process which Katherine Mansfield once described as 'going out and looking at a tree and coming back plus the tree. — Padma Hejmadi

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. — Katherine Mansfield

The whole world shall be ours because of our love. — Katherine Mansfield

Oh dear, I sometimes think ... whatever should I do if anything were to ... But, there, thinking's no good to any one - is it, madam? — Katherine Mansfield

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. — Katherine Mansfield

What did garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him? He was far from all those things. He was wonderful, beautiful. — Katherine Mansfield

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. — Katherine Mansfield

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

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. — Katherine Mansfield

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

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. — Katherine Mansfield

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read! — Katherine Mansfield

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

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

To be alive and to be a 'writer' is enough. — Katherine Mansfield

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

This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment. — Katherine Mansfield

Roo-coo-coo-coo! Roo-coo-coo-coo! — Katherine Mansfield

Light as feathers the witches fly,
The horn of the moon is plain to see;
By a firefly under a jonquil flower
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. — Katherine Mansfield

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. — Katherine Mansfield

If I lived alone I would be very dependent on poetry. — Katherine Mansfield

I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins. — Katherine Mansfield

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

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel. — Katherine Mansfield

White! he turned as white as a woman. — Katherine Mansfield

Coach! Coach, Stanley! — Katherine Mansfield

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long. — Katherine Mansfield

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

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes. — Katherine Mansfield

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

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

his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered — Katherine Mansfield

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. — Katherine Mansfield

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

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

No, madam, never now. Of course, I did think of it at one time. But it wasn't to be. He had a little flower-shop just down — Katherine Mansfield

EM Forster never gets any further than warming the tea pot ... Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. — Katherine Mansfield

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

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

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it. — Katherine Mansfield

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most. — Katherine Mansfield

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. — Katherine Mansfield