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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

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Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death.

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It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

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Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!

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Can it be that I have not lived as one ought? Suddenly came into his head. But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

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Suddenly some force struck him in the chest and side, making it still harder to breathe, and he fell through the hole and there at the bottom was a light.

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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.

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