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Dont assimilate with people aroundtext you because you are the one living…
Dont assimilate with people aroundtext you because you are the one living your life with the decisions.
“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?”(pg33
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“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him”(pg30)
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“the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.” (8)
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“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!”(pg20)
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“Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.”(pg 18)
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“There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.” (pg 23)
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“It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.”(pg12)
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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. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just because not even his death could save her,”(21pg)
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"four hours a day each of which was a torture. And he had to live thus all alone on the brink of an abyss, with no one who understood or pitied him.”
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Black Sack symbol
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When he's dying, Ivan Ilych dreams of falling into a black sack, a symbol that primarily represents death. His feelings toward the black sack are ambivalent; although he feels like he wants to fall into its depths, he also fights against being pushed in.
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Phoenix symbol
Referring to Ivan Ilych as a phoenix may also represent Ivan's ultimate rising above his physical death and emerging as a spiritual being who is beyond death. Ivan is said to be a phoenix to show that there is really no such thing as death. Death is simply a step toward spiritual rebirth and nothing one should fear.
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