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precarious existence Quotes

Two of the best book quotes about precarious existence
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“I wake sometimes in the dark terrified by my life’s precariousness, its thready breath. Beside me, my husband’s pulse beats at his throat; in their beds, my children’s skin shows every faintest scratch. A breeze would blow them over, and the world is filled with more than breezes: diseases and disasters, monsters and pain in a thousand variations.”
Madeline Miller
author
Circe
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Circe (goddess)
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fear
pain
nightmares
disasters
mortality
disease
breathing
precarious existence
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“They walk there in just the clothes they stand up in. The war is ending, and there is a precarious existence eking out food stores, and anticipating horrors from the oncoming Russian army.”

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