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Leo Tolstoy

“What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.”

Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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The Death of Ivan Ilych The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
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