To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
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Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
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Birth: | 14th October, 1888 |
Death: | 9th January, 1923 |
Nationality: | New Zealander |
Profession: | Writer |
Katherine Mansfield was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.
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