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On Hannah Arendt's birthday, link in profile for her timeless meditation on love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss. (If you crave something more substantive than Instagram, try the weekly Marginalian newsletter, free and ad-free 18 years running: themarginalian.org/newsletter)

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“Fearlessness is what love seeks,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her superb early work on love and loss. “Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”

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Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All

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“The trouble with human happiness is that it is constantly beset by fear,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her incisive Augustine-lensed meditation on love and loss, and nowhere is our happiness more beset by fear than in our fear of change.