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  1. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil - or perhaps just of folly - when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die
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  2. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the last six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it?
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  3. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    He enjoyed the soft sound of night wind and the knowledge that he was the only boy-perhaps the only human being-out there in the dark on the windy, frozen-grass meadows on this night that smelled of coming snow, alienated from the lighted windows and the warm hearths, very aware that he was of the village but not part of it at that moment. It was a thrilling, almost erotic feeling-an illicit discovery of self separated from everyone and everything else in the cold and dark-and he feels it again now, as he has more than
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  4. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    suddenly. "Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?
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  5. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    I wish I could help him. I wish I could help the dozens of other Sufferers - all the victims of wounds, maulings, burns, diseases, incipient malnutrition, and melancholic despair - aboard this entrapped ship and her sister ship. I wish I could help myself, for already I am showing the early signs of Nostalgia and Debility.But there is little that I - or any surgeon in the Year of Our Lord 1848 - can do. God help us all.
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  6. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    it's the mind analogy that bothers Crozier the most. Haunted and plagued by melancholia much of his life, knowing it as a secret weakness made worse by his twelve winters frozen in arctic darkness as an adult, feeling it recently triggered into active agony by Sophia Cracroft's rejection
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  7. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Жизнь дается лишь раз, и она несчастна, убога, отвратительна, жестока и коротка.
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  8. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Когда имеешь дело с дураками, спустя какое-то время начинаешь понимать ход их мыслей.
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  9. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    always visibly earnest and hopeful and strident and feminine and eccentric
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  10. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    If there really was a goddess like Sedna who ruled the world, her real name was Bitch Irony.
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  11. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    I was always waiting for you, she sent.
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  12. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    In this cold, teeth can shatter after two or three hours-actually explode-sending shrapnel of bone and enamel flying inside the cavern of one's clenched jaws.
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