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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am… — Katherine Mansfield

Personal journal

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy-deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield
1922
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Provenance
Current citation
Mansfield, Katherine. Journal of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry. Persephone, 2006.
Original citation
Mansfield, Katherine. Diary entry. 17 Oct. 1922.

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