What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know.... But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead-yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all. (Katherine Mansfield)

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know.... But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead-yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

Katherine Mansfield

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