Frases de Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
Data de nascimento: 14. Outubro 1888
Data de falecimento: 9. Janeiro 1923
Katherine Mansfield, pseudônimo de Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp foi uma proeminente escritora neozelandesa de contos.
Citações Katherine Mansfield
„Eu quero ser tudo que sou capaz de me tornar.“
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming
Fonte: "Stories"; Por Katherine Mansfield; Publicado por Vintage Books, 1956; ISBN 0394700368, 9780394700366 books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=K1yZTPWOIN4C&q=%22I+want+to+be+all+that+I+am+capable+of+becoming%22+katherine+Mansfield&dq=%22I+want+to+be+all+that+I+am+capable+of+becoming%22+katherine+Mansfield&lr=&client=firefox-a&hl=pt-BR&pgis=1, página viii
„The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.“
Letter to Ottoline Morrell (January 1922)
„I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.“
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Contexto: By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
„Warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less.“
Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. Middleton Murry
Contexto: Warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for. … 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.
„It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.“
Letter to Anne Estelle Rice (21 May 1921)), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. IV
Contexto: It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. I do hope I'll be able to keep in it long enough to do some really good work. I'm sick of people dying who promise well.
„I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming so that I may be (and here I have stopped and waited and waited and it’s no good — there’s only one phrase that will do) a child of the sun.“
Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) ed. J. Middleton Murry
Contexto: By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun. All that we mean when we speak of the external world. A want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming so that I may be (and here I have stopped and waited and waited and it’s no good — there’s only one phrase that will do) a child of the sun. About helping others, about carrying a light and so on, it seems false to say a single word. Let it be at that. A child of the sun.
„I feel happy — deep down. All is well.“
Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. Middleton Murry
Contexto: Warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for. … 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.
„It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.“
Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Contexto: When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
„I feel happy — deep down. May you be happy too.“
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927); these are the final words of the journal
Contexto: 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. May you be happy too. I'm going to Fontainebleau on Monday and I'll be back here Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. All is well.
