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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Walter Benjamin
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The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
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One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!

Michael Flynn
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

Emil M. Cioran, History and Utopia
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Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
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...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists.""I find that hard to believe""Of course you do, you're an optimist. You have a misguided belief that things will go your way. You don't see the dangers till it's too late. Pessimists are more realistic. "That seems like a sad way to govern your life.""It's a safe way to govern your life.

Susin Nielsen, Optimists Die First
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne, The Complete English Poems
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In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on the nation-state for protection from violence is precisely to exchange one potential violence for another. There may, indeed, be few other choices.

Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
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