There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same… — William Somerset Maugham
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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