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Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
Leo Tolstoy • The Death of Ivan Ilych
‘Cowardice is the most terrible of vices’—which
Larissa Volokhonsky • THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The Lord God can’t take some Tartar by the neck and claim that he, too, was a Christian?
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
his life and his family, his social and professional ambitions—each of them might be false. He tried to defend it all to himself, and suddenly the weakness of what he was defending became palpable to him. There was nothing, nothing to defend. But if this is so, he said to himself, and I’m leaving the world knowing I’ve ruined everything I was given
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On an impulse he switched out the light on his desk and sat in the hot darkness of his office; the cold air filled his lungs, and he leaned toward the open window. He heard the silence of the winter night, and it seemed to him that he somehow felt the sounds that were absorbed by the delicate and intricately cellular being of the snow. Nothing move
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him, who until then had loved only “iniquity.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Doctor was an unshakable identity, and Sylvie and her family, and all of Kent’s many friends, showed him their wounds and symptoms with a look that said, Can you fix me?
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“What tormented Ivan Ilyich most,” Tolstoy writes, “was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.
Excerpt From Being Mortal Atul Gawande