“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”

Source: Julius Caesar

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

He fell silent. "Put him down for the chocolates."
Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 15

Realm of Light Book II (1931) Epigraph

Vol. VI, p. 116, Vol. VIII, p. 266ff.
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
Context: I certainly know that I owe it [the Copernican theory] this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.

The White House Years (1979)
1970s
Context: The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

El use estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. La función más noble de los objetos es la de ser contemplados.
Niebla [Mist] (1914)