Russian writer, editor.
Born May 14th, 1895 in Lublin. [ref]
Died February 9th, 1926 at 30 years old in Moscow (typhoid fever). [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel