Laniakea

“What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.”
― Jack Vance, The Green Pearl

“Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.”
― Clark Ashton Smith

“All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith

“Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923