“Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.”

—  Katherine Mansfield

Letter to John Middleton Murry (11 October 1922), from The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry (1928)

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