Book 1. Chapter 3. The Night Shadows
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this.
I've seen a couple of movie versions of the book -- none do justice to the dream-like, sepulchral opening. And the foreshadowing of the secret of the buried, forgotten man: "one-hundred five - north tower".
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