“To die is nothing, it’s only going from one room to another.”
—Major-General James Hope Grant, Incidents in the China War

“You may be witched by his sunlight . . . but there is the blackness of darkness beyond.”
—Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses”

“Shortly before his death, [a man] discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”
—Jorge Luis Borges