"At school he had committed actions which had struck him beforehand as great vileness, and gave him a feeling of loath…"

"Even when he was at the School of Law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life: a capable, cheerful, goo…"

"Most of the conversations between husband and wife, especially as to the children’s education, led to topics which re…"

"Ivan Ilych’s life continued to flow as he considered it should do—pleasantly and properly."

"The result was charming not only in his eyes but to everyone who saw it. In reality it was just what is usually seen …"

"On the whole his life ran its course as he believed life should do: easily, pleasantly, and decorously."

"In all this the thing was to exclude everything fresh and vital, which always disturbs the regular course of official…"

"Ivan Ilych’s chief pleasure was giving little dinners to which he invited men and women of good social position, and …"

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

"Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."