"Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone."
— Ivan Turgenev

January 1, 1970

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Ch. 27. The original Russian goes Старая штука смерть, а каждому внове. Here, штука means piece or thing, whereas joke is шутка, possibly a mistranslation.