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- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- 1886
- “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?” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych.
- “Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie.
- “He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.”
- “The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.”
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20 of the best book quotes from The Death of Ivan Ilych. 01. “Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”. Leo Tolstoy. author. The Death of Ivan Ilych. book. Ivan Ilych Golovin. character.
In The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, the quote "The fear of death now had no power over him" portrays the profound transformation experienced by the novel's protagonist. Ivan Ilych, a high-ranking judge, initially lives his life consumed by societal expectations and material possessions.
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20 quotes. His face had acquired greater beauty, or, more to the point,greater significance, than it had had in life. Its expression seemed to say that what needed to be done had been done, and done properly. More than that, the expression contained a reproach, or at least a reminder, to the living.
