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“You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze.”

Ifs Way Feels Stills Together Break Violence Blood Cold Breaths Teeth Noses Vessel Pulse Irritation Vehement Membranes Blood Vessels

Book:Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay: Volume 2: Edited by Her Niece

Source: Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay: Volume 2: Edited by Her Niece

“A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.”

Memories Forever Violence Cold Leaving Blow Violent Holes Atmosphere Pierce Damp Violent Acts

Book:Trick of the Eye

Source: Trick of the Eye

“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.”

“Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.”

Sex Sports Violence Football College Cold Weather Cold Weather

Author:Roger Kahn

“Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.”

Realizing Violence Cold Creatures Normal Peaceful Wilderness Starvation Peaceful Life

Book:African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

“The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire