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Vote: | Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. |
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Vote: | Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. |
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Vote: | I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. |
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Vote: | If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. |
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Vote: | Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Katherine Mansfield served as the pen-name for Kathleen Beauchamp (October 14, 1888–January 9, 1923).
Background Born in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved permanently to Europe as a young woman, met and married John Middleton Murry, and contracted tuberculosis in 1917. Battling this disease, she resided at many different health spas all around Europe, but when she was in London, she visited with her writing contemporaries like D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Later she joined the Gurdjieff commune south of Paris France called the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man (a health center specializing in tuberculosis and other such diseases) and died there at Fontainebleau. She is buried in the cemetery in the Fontainebleau district in the town of Avon where there is a street named in her honour.
She was a cousin to novelist Elizabeth von Arnim (née Beauchamp).
A writer of short stories, Mansfield developed the techniques of Anton Chekhov in the genre. She is considered one of the two or three most influential short story writers during the Modernist period. The Fly is one of her works which is considered one of the best short stories ever written. Much of her work reflects her New Zealand childhood.
In addition to her numerous works, Mansfield expressed how life is actually more like death (she was actually suicidal). The short story revolves around the life of two, unmarried sisters, struggling through their new lives on the eve of their father's death. Josephine and Constantia, both uncapable of processing any instruction or command whatsoever, resemble zombies. For example, they can't instruct their servant at all, and can not conclude any decision or fact, like if they should give the watch to their nephew or Uncle.
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