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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
By Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.
By Katherine Mansfield
It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.
By Katherine Mansfield
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
By Katherine Mansfield
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.
By Katherine Mansfield
But what Kezia liked more than anything, what she liked frightfully, was the lamp. It stood in the middle of the dining-room table, an exquisite little amber lamp with a white globe. It was filled all ready for lighting, though, of course, you couldn't light it. But there was something inside that looked like oil and moved when you shook it. The father and mother dolls, who sprawled very stiff as though they had fainted in the drawing-room, and their two little children asleep upstairs, were really too big for the doll's house. They didn't look as though they belonged. But the lamp was perfect. It seemed to smile at Kezia, to say, 'I live here.' The lamp was real.
By 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.
By Katherine Mansfield
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
By Katherine Mansfield
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.
By Katherine Mansfield
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.
By Katherine Mansfield
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 for wallowing in.
By Katherine Mansfield
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
By 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 pluses.
By Katherine Mansfield
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.
By Katherine Mansfield