Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Meaning of the quote
This quote means that once you've learned how to read, you can understand the meaning of words without really thinking about it. The words just seem to make sense in your mind, even if you're not actively thinking about what they mean.
About Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was a renowned New Zealand writer and critic who played a significant role in the modernist movement. Her works, published in 25 languages, are celebrated worldwide. Born in Wellington, Mansfield had a rich literary career in England, where she associated with notable figures like D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
More quotes from Katherine Mansfield
I’m a writer first and a woman after.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives – one is so very small – but that is the satisfaction of writing – one can impersonate so many people.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Life never becomes a habit to me. It’s always a marvel.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)
It’s a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask.
New Zealand author (1888-1923)