Guilherme Cruz’s Reviews > The Death of Ivan Ilych > Status Update

"The time for fooling himself was over: something new and dreadful was going on inside Ivan Ilyich, something significant, more significant than anything in his whole life. And he was the only one who knew it; the people around him didn't know, or didn't want to know — they thought that everything in the world was going on as before", pg 45.