Status Updates From La Mort d'Ivan Ilitch

"... in these last days of terrible solitude Ivan Ilyich lived only by recreating the past." - idk why i thought it would be a good idea to pick up this book while going through a quarter life crisis 😭😭

Tolstoy masterfully elucidates the distinction between the external, social world and the solitude of the internal. When life undergoes transformations, we yearn to share our newfound awareness and comprehension with others, yet find ourselves isolated when we realize that no one else can comprehend it in the same way.