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

— Katherine Mansfield

Journal entry, "Reading Notes" (1905-1907), quoted in Ruth Elvish Mantz and John Middleton Murry, The Life of Katherine Mansfield (1933), p. 212

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