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I feel happy — deep down. All is well.

— Katherine Mansfield

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Source, in full

Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. Middleton Murry

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun.

When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

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