More from Katherine Mansfield

  1. If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple - you salt them …
  2. Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery. This is what I must do.
  3. 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 terribl…
  4. I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to …
  5. To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
  6. It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It…
  7. To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
  8. 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.

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