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)


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.

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.

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.

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.