The Death of Ivan Ilyich begins at the end. In the law courts, colleagues of Ivan Ilyich Golovin read in the newspaper of his death, and each thinks first of the promotions and transfers it will bring.
Author
Leo Tolstoy
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“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
“There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.”