Katherine Mansfield

More from Katherine Mansfield

• 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

• 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.

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

  • Advice

• 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

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy