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

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LGBT peoplePeople from WellingtonShort story writers from New ZealandPoets from New ZealandWomen authors from New Zealand
Original Language: English

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Letter to John Middleton Murry (11 October 1922), from The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry (1928)