"It occurred to him that what had formerly appeared completely impossible to him, that he had not lived his life as he should have, might be true. It occurred to him that those barely noticeable impulses he had felt to fight against what highly placed people considered good, barely noticeable impulses which he had immediately driven away — that they might have been the real thing, and all the rest might have been not right. His work, and his living conditions, and his family, and these social and professional interests — all might have been not right. He tried to defend it all to himself. And he suddenly felt all the weakness of what he was defending. And so there was nothing to defend."
- Tolstoy, “Death of Ivan Ilyich”
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