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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

— Katherine Mansfield

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More quotes by Katherine Mansfield

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

Katherine Mansfield : A Biography (1953)

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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