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Katherine Mansfield1888–1923

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.

Katherine Mansfield on advice

Letter to her future husband, John Middleton Murry (July 1917), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I

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By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun.
Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind
- Health
- Nature
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.
Journal entry (29 January 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
- Life & Death
When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
- Failure
- Laughter

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