“Ivan Ilych’s chief pleasure was giving little dinners to which he invited men and women of good social position, and just as his drawing-room resembled all other drawing-rooms so did his enjoyable little parties resemble all other such parties.”
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“In all this the thing was to exclude everything fresh and vital, which always disturbs the regular course of official business, and to admit only official relations with people, and then only on offic...”

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“The pleasures connected with his work were pleasures of ambition; his social pleasures were those of vanity.”

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“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.”

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“There was the usual waiting and the important air assumed by the doctor, with which he was so familiar (resembling that which he himself assumed in court), and the sounding and listening, and the ques...”

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“To Ivan Ilych only one question was important: was his case serious or not? But the doctor ignored that inappropriate question. From his point of view it was not the one under consideration, the real ...”

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