When Lito (episode 5, “Art and Religion” in “Sense8”, a Netflix series) forgetting his role as a rude character in a Mexican movie began to shed tears, he explained to the director that his grief was caused by the realization that “all beauty is temporary.” * 

commentaries: Lito is "part of the episode’s most outwardly comedic story line.... [He] breaks down crying ...telling the director that in the moment he realized the fleeting nature of beauty...The whole scene is played for laughs, and while a man going through hormonal swings brought on by a period could be very base humor, it works here, mostly due to how evocative and unhinged Miguel Ángel Silvestre’s performance is."  http://www.ew.com/recap/sense8-season-1-episode-5

**- VN had no access to the comforts of religion, such as the Jesuit poet’s G.M.Hopkins (now I have in mind “Spring and Fall” that ends with “It ís the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for”, cf. http://www.bartleby.com/122/31.html ). In his annotated copy of Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” we read: “The soul has died with Gregor; the healthy young animal takes over. The parasites have fattened themselves on Gregor.” However, this personal lamentation doesn’t show in the body of his lecture, which he ends with a very objective paragraph: “You will mark Kafka's style. Its clarity, its precise and formal intonation in such striking contrast to the nightmare matter of his tale. No poetical metaphors ornament his stark black-and-white story. The limpidity of his style stresses the dark richness of his fantasy. Contrast and unity, style and matter, manner and plot are most perfectly integrated.”