“Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.”

Journal entry (29 January 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Context: 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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