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Tolstoy on the Danger of Propriety

“Maybe I did not live as I ought to have done,” it suddenly occurred to him. “But how could that be, when I did everything properly?” he replied, and immediately dismissed from his mind this, the sole solution of all the riddles of life and death, as something quite impossible.

― in Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

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