Status Updates From The Death of Ivan Ilyich

“I recalled my past life, and that innocent childish past seemed to me so black when compared to the present brightness of my soul, that I wept and was horrified at myself; but I felt too that all those sins would be forgiven, and that if my sins had been even greater, my repentance would be all the sweeter.”

So we're already starting with the selfishness of people, nice

“She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease.”
😭