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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

by Katherine Mansfield

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“memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
― Edith Wharton

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“I hate when people say 'I see'. It doesn't mean anything and I think it's hostile. Whenever anyone tells me 'I see' I think they're really saying 'Fuck you'.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

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― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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