Sadayatana

And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

- Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark (1968)

Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.

- Giorgio de Chirico, On Mystery and Creation, Paris (1913)

The important thing in this life is to link your sadness to the sadness of others.

- Shūsaku Endō, The Girl I Left Behind