“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”

Source: Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

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New Zealand author 1888–1923

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