“What induced his moral agony was that during the night, as he gazed at Gerasim’s broad-boned, sleepy, good-natured face, he suddenly asked himself: ‘What if my entire life, my entire conscious life, simply was not the real thing?’
It occurred to him that what had seemed utterly inconceivable before—that he had not lived the kind of life he should have—might in fact be true.”
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It occurred to him that what had seemed utterly inconceivable before—that he had not lived the kind of life he should have—might in fact be true.”
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“False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
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