Mandala

“Everywhere, in whatever realm of life, whether among its callous, coarsely impoverished and messily moldering lower ranks, or among its monotonously gelid and tediously tidy upper strata, everywhere, if but once, a person will encounter a phenomenon on his journey that is unlike anything he has chanced to see heretofore and that, at least once will awake in him a feeling unlike any he is fated to feel for the rest of his life.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“But on the other hand, it would be a great mistake to assume that the dead are absolutely powerless.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man