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On the Terrors of Death
Seneca
1. Keep on as you have begun, and make all possible haste, so that you may have longer enjoyment of an improved mind, one that is at peace with itself. Doubtless you will derive enjoyment during the time when you are i …
Mrs Dalloway
Woolf Virginia · 1925
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Chapter 1
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clar …
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy Leo · 1886
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What tormented him most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason everyone had accepted: that he was not dying, but was merely ill, and that if he would only keep quiet and undergo the tr …