“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you,--you'd forget me.”
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“Ivan Ilyich's life had been most simple and commonplace–and most horrifying.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!”
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
“She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
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