" Even so,—a million years after we shall have ceased to view the sun,—will the gladness and grief of our own lives pass with richer music into other hearts—there to bestir, for one mysterious moment, some deep and exquisite thrilling of voluptuous pain. "

― Lafcadio Hearn , In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan