“Love — this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.”
"Model's Web rants pined for love" in Daily News (29 June 2009)
Source: Nights in Rodanthe
“Love — this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.”
"Model's Web rants pined for love" in Daily News (29 June 2009)
Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) ed. J. Middleton Murry
Context: 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. All that we mean when we speak of the external world. A want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming so that I may be (and here I have stopped and waited and waited and it’s no good — there’s only one phrase that will do) a child of the sun. About helping others, about carrying a light and so on, it seems false to say a single word. Let it be at that. A child of the sun.
“Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder.”
Ma'amar Hador.
Context: Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.
“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”
Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 25 (p. 209)