Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol in prose (№ 460394)

The soul contained in every person must communicate with people and, following them everywhere, participate in their fate. And those who did not fulfill this during life are doomed to hang around after death. He is condemned to travel around the world and look at the joys and sorrows of people, which he no longer has the power to share, but once he could - for the joy of himself and others.