“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.”
― Eugene Onegin
― Eugene Onegin
“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
“But flaming youth in all it's madness
Keeps nothing of its heart concealed:
It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness,
Are babbled out and soon revealed.”
― Eugene Onegin
Keeps nothing of its heart concealed:
It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness,
Are babbled out and soon revealed.”
― Eugene Onegin
“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
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