When we can 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.
¶ (Attributed)
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) New Zealander author
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
¶ The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
¶ Letter (1928)
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