The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!

“A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as …”

“Lord have mercy! Pardon and help us!" he repeated the words that suddenly and u…”

“We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent mea…”

“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I coul…”