George Orwell. Execution by hanging (№ 147565)

When I saw the convict takes a step to the side to avoid a puddle, I had my eyes opened, realizing that the man has no right to break the spouting another person's life [...] He and together we were a single group of people moving, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; but in two minutes the sharp crunch will declare that one of us is no more - will be one mind less, one less universe.