“Death was not there as yet, but life was there no longer, – there was something new, something astonishing, inexplicable, not entirely reasonable and yet not altogether without meaning, – something so deep and mysterious and supernatural that it was impossible to understand.”

“Death was not there as yet, but life was there no longer, – there was something new, something astonishing, inexplicable, not entirely reasonable and yet not altogether without meaning, – something so deep and mysterious and supernatural that it was impossible to understand.”

— Leonid Andreyev