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Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a…

Quote byKatherine Mansfield · 1888–1923

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to John Middleton Murry (11 October 1922), from The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry (1928).

English (original)

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

— Katherine Mansfield

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