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Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand-born British writer renowned for her short stories. Her work is celebrated for its concise, direct style and profound insight into the details of everyday life. Although her writing career was brief, her influence on literature has been profound.

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Famous Katherine Mansfield Quotes

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

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”

Author:Katherine Mansfield

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

Love Happiness Short Story Eyes Smiling Happy People Holding Hands

Author:Katherine Mansfield

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

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

“No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.”

Love Mind Littles Two Dream Dark Chance Path Flower Experience Depth Heavy Woods Grass Pool Life Experience Snakes Tangled Orchard Wild Places

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise”

World Love Feels Promise Beats Silent Combination Loud Scream I Promise

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”

Ifs Love True Love Best Love Mushrooms False Love Toadstools

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.”

Want Love Feelings Faces Rain Weather Love Rain I Love Rain

Author:Katherine Mansfield