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  1. Leo Tolstoy _ The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    What do you want? What do you want?" he repeated to himself. "What do I want? To live and not to suffer," he answered. And again he listened with such concentrated attention that even his pain did not distract him. "To live? How?" asked his inner voice. "Why, to live as I used to-well and pleasantly." "As you lived before, well and pleasantly?" the voice repeated. And in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life.
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  2. Leo Tolstoy _ The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just because not even his death could save her,
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  3. Leo Tolstoy _ The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware."
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  4. Leo Tolstoy _ The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!
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  5. Leo Tolstoy _ The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    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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