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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.224, Feminist Press at CUNY
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.