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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

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He wept on account of his helplessness, his terrible loneliness, the cruelty of man, the cruelty of God, and the absence of God.

The Other Side

by Alfred Kubin

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Howard’s Quotes

“God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. "An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Fratricides

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“The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.”
― Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale

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“If one knew, he wondered, the facts,
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

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“An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.”
― Émile Zola, Truth

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“How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!”
― Émile Zola, Lourdes

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