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Most of the conversations between husband and wife, .. led to topics which recalled former disputes, and these disputes were apt to flare up again at any moment. There remained only those rare periods of amorousness which still came to them at times but did not last long. These were islets at which they anchored for a while and then again set out upon that ocean of veiled hostility which showed ... in their aloofness
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Mark André
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Praskovya Fedorovna came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property. She was well connected, and was a sweet, pretty, and thoroughly correct young woman. To say that Ivan Ilych married because he fell in love with Praskovya Fedorovna and found that she sympathized with his views of life would be as incorrect as to say that he married because his social circle approved of the match.
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At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.
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The dead man lay, as dead men always lie, in a specially heavy way, his rigid limbs sunk in the soft cushions of the coffin, with the head forever bowed on the pillow. [...] The expression on the face said that what was necessary had been accomplished, and accomplished rightly. Besides this there was in that expression a reproach and a warning to the living.
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So on receiving the news of Ivan Ilych's death the first thought of each of the gentlemen in that private room was of the changes and promotions it might occasion among themselves or their acquaintances.
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Mark André
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Well written, but very grim. Was not fun to read.
— Jul 08, 2018 11:22PM
Mark André
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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
— Jul 05, 2018 07:09AM
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
— Jun 30, 2018 04:15AM
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
— Jun 28, 2018 11:15PM
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
I’m doing a quick reread to try and improve my opinion of this famous Tolstoy work. So far, so good.