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You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forev...

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

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When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe an...

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Rabindranath TagoreThe Home and the World

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

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Rudyard KiplingThe Light That Failed [Illustrated]

Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bi...

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I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody els...

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The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was...

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The ticking seconds pulled me toward the end. It was cold when he no longer held me. It got colder e...

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Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity...

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Damp veils of mist swirled around them. They were dreadfully cold (Moomintroll thought longingly of ...

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On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has f...

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(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...

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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I don...

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Gripped with bitter cold, ice-locked, Petersburg burned in delirium. One knew: out there, invisible ...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

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June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill hi...

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Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming ...

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Angela CarterNights at the Circus

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He mean...

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They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only h...

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I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kil...

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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of n...

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A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering again...

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Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and...

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Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these p...

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The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

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Dr. SeussThe Cat in the Hat

It's too cold outside for angels to fly.

The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have ...

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Edith WhartonThe Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking

Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up...

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Nothing burns like the cold.

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is ...

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It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like cryst...

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It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so...

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October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold a...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

(...) “to have a hairy heart” has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfe...

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J. K. RowlingThe Tales of Beedle the Bard

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...

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Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally f...

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

This was beyond a joke. This had moved beyond foolishness, slipped over the line into genuine 24 kar...

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By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and th...

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Neil GaimanOdd and the Frost Giants

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...

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Nelson AlgrenThe Man With the Golden Arm

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the co...

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I do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not w...

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