Jack London - To Build a Fire (1902)

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A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die.... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.

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