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Katherine Mansfield Quotes


A prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. Among her most well known stories are "The Garden Party," "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," and "The Fly." During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the age of 34.

Here are some famous quotes by Katherine Mansfield.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

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Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing.

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Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

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

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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.

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I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in.

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When we can begin to take our failures non-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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Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

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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.