"The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few instances of intensity but that is all. I want to find a world in which these instances are united. Shall I succeed? I scarcely care. What is important is to try & learn to live, and in relation to everything – not isolated. This isolation is death to me." (da una lettera a S. S. Koteliansky)

(Katherine Mansfield, scrittrice; Wellington, 14 ottobre 1888 – Fontainebleau, 9 gennaio 1923)