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Katherine Mansfield Quotes


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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
[Fear]
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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
[Work]
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We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
[Goals]

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
[Begin]

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

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.


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