“What tormented Ivan Ilyich most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and the only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.”
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
“We practically always excuse things when we understand them”
― A Hero of Our Time
― A Hero of Our Time
“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
― A Hero of Our Time
― A Hero of Our Time
“Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.”
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
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