The Master and Margarita
From the album “Illustrations by Rostislav Popskiy”
“Everything was over, and there was nothing more to talk about, Ha‑Notsri was going away forever, and there was no one to cure the procurator’s terrible, evil pains; there is no remedy for them except death. But it was not this thought that struck Pilate now. The same incomprehensible anguish that had already come on the balcony pierced his whole being. He at once tried to explain it, and the explanation was a strange one: it seemed dimly to the procurator that he had left something unsaid to the condemned man, or perhaps had failed to hear something...”