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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
5.0

"'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."

This was tough, but necessary. Certainly one of those stories that will change the way you look at life and the world around you. Ivan Ilych died so we can live.