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1. "Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes." ~ Katherine Mansfield
2. "I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead." ~ Katherine Mansfield
3. "You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul." ~ Katherine Mansfield
4. "Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can't I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I'd like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one." ~ Katherine Mansfield
5. "To be alive and to be a ‘writer' is enough." ~ Katherine Mansfield
6. "Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel." ~ Katherine Mansfield
7. "Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them." ~ Katherine Mansfield
8. "Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order." ~ Katherine Mansfield
9. "…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, "come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking…!" ~ Katherine Mansfield
10. "I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi." ~ Katherine Mansfield
11. "Outside the sky is light with stars" ~ Katherine Mansfield
12. "Light as feathers the witches fly,The horn of the moon is plain to see;By a firefly under a jonquil flowerA goblin toasts a bumble-bee." ~ Katherine Mansfield
13. "... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some resemblance, soe part of myself, like a thousand reflections of my own hands in a dark mirror." ~ Katherine Mansfield
14. "It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful very often - oh yes - but mournful somehow. Solemn. And now it would never be like that again - it had opened dazzling bright." ~ Katherine Mansfield
15. "... always with that magical child air about her, that delightful sense of perpetually attending a party." ~ Katherine Mansfield
16. "She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her." ~ Katherine Mansfield
17. "It is the only life I care about—to write, to go out occasionally and ‘lose myself' looking and hearing and then to come back and write again. At any rate that's the life I've chosen." ~ Katherine Mansfield
18. "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
19. "Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at - nothing - at nothing, simply." ~ Katherine Mansfield
20. "¡Perdida! Una hora de oro Con sus sesenta minutos de diamanteNo se ofrece recompensa Pues ¡Perdida está para siempre!" ~ Katherine Mansfield
21. "Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, tying ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodices, smoothing marble-white gloves. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely." ~ Katherine Mansfield
22. "The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel." ~ Katherine Mansfield
23. "Ne için buradasin?""Sinirden.""Ah, mümkün degil, gerçekten inanamam buna.""Tam anlamiyla dogru," dedim coskum sönerken. Çelik gibi sinirleri oldugundan kusku duyulmamasindan daha tedirgin edici sey yoktur bir kadin için." ~ Katherine Mansfield
24. "Ay bile bitkin..." ~ Katherine Mansfield
25. "Merak ediyorum, niçin acaba belli bir noktadan sonra insanlari sanki igrendiriyorum. Tuhaf, degil mi! Baslarda hoslaniyorlar benden; beni alisilmadik ya da özgün buluyorlar; ama sonra onlardan hoslandigimi göstermek - hatta ipucu vermek - istedigim anda sanki korkup yok olmaya basliyorlar. Galiba daha sonra canimdan bezdirecek bu durum beni. Belki de onlara verecek çok fazla seyim oldugunu anliyorlar bir yolla. Belki onlari korkutan da bu. Ah, birisine verilecek öyle sinirsiz, sinirsiz sevgim oldugunu hissediyorum ki - birisini öylesine sonsuzca, öylesine bütünüyle sevebilirim ki - onu kollayabilirim - korkunç olan her seyi ondan uzak tutabilirim - bir seylerin yapilmasini istedikleri her kez bunu yapmak için yasadigimi hissettirebilirim. Ah bir hissedebilsem birisinin beni istedigini, birisine yararim dokunabilecegini, tümden baska bir kisiye dönüsürdüm." ~ Katherine Mansfield
26. "Bir seyleri beklemek çok tehlikeli... Bir seyleri beklersen, yalnizca senden daha daha uzaklasir beklediklerin." ~ Katherine Mansfield
27. "We might be fifty, we might be five,So snug, so compact, so wise are we!Under the kitchen-table legMy knee is pressing against his knee." ~ Katherine Mansfield
28. "Love! Love! Your tenderness,Your beautiful, watchful ways" ~ Katherine Mansfield
29. "Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long." ~ Katherine Mansfield
30. "The whole world shall be ours because of our love." ~ Katherine Mansfield
31. "I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love." ~ Katherine Mansfield
32. "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
33. "When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they had long beams like wings..." ~ Katherine Mansfield
34. "I'd love to tearfully absorb you in every way and I'd love to play with your hair, read your eyes, feel disarmed in your presence. I'd love to experience a seizure of full-silenced tenderness with you and at the same time dwell on your Dionysian idiosyncrasy of red, slightly heated wine, constant passion and chaos; How can I even imprison this desire into mere letters structured together in order to form a coherent meaning? There is no meaning. Darling! Darling! You can flash "meaning" down the toilet if you wish. Still, I'd love to share a life full of richness with you: Richness not in terms of events, incidents, facts or experiences; but richness in terms of a colourful, adventurous, enthusiastically unraveling life. I'd love to lose all privileges of existence as long as I might have a small chance of walking on water with you." ~ Katherine Mansfield
35. "In the forest, in the forest, silence had cast a spell over all things. She plucked a great bouquet of daffodils and snowdrops, and tenderly held them to her, and tenderly kissed their fresh spring faces. She did not sing at all, but sat silent, expectant, and wondering, till her flowers faded and withered in her hands." ~ Katherine Mansfield
36. "Bence," dedi belli belirsiz, "insan alisir. Insan her seye alisir.""Öyle mi?" diye sordu Jonathan. "Hmm. Nasil yaptiklarini merak ediyorum, ben hiç beceremedim." ~ Katherine Mansfield
37. "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
38. "Do you feel in this letter my love for you today - It is as warm as a bird's nest." ~ Katherine Mansfield
39. "If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools." ~ Katherine Mansfield
40. "I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face." ~ Katherine Mansfield
41. "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." ~ Katherine Mansfield
42. "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different." ~ Katherine Mansfield
43. "What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties." ~ Katherine Mansfield
44. "The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books." ~ Katherine Mansfield
45. "Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change." ~ Katherine Mansfield
46. "I'm a writer first and a woman after." ~ Katherine Mansfield
47. "It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves." ~ Katherine Mansfield
48. "The most thrilling day of the year, the first real day of Spring had enclosed its warm delicious beauty even to London eyes. It had put a spangle in every colour and a new tone in every voice, and city folks walked as though they carried real bodies under their clothes with real live hearts pumping the still blood through." ~ Katherine Mansfield
49. "Oh, Mother, I do not want any breakfast.'‘I have not brought you any,' said Mrs. Fairfield, putting down the tray on the bed table. ‘A spot of porridge, a finger of toast …'‘The merest sensation of marmalade—' mocked Linda.But Mrs. Fairfield remained serious. ‘Yes, dearie, and a little pot of fresh tea." ~ Katherine Mansfield
50. "Leila was sure ifhe partner didn't come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding, gliding over the golden floor, she would die at least, or faint, or lift her arms and fly out of one of those dark windows that showed the stars." ~ Katherine Mansfield
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
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Wit
Thin
Ear
Hen
End
Thou
King
Ten
Tan
Though
Light
Con
Self
Owe
Low
Hey
Here
She
Lit
Dark
Sin
Ally
Yes
Air
Mad
Per
Act
Ways
Hand
Moment
Tend
Star
Son
Pen
Ask
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Leg
Read
Eye
Beautiful
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Face
Understand
Stars
Bee
Bed
Tree
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