/lit/ - Literature

“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”

-Murakami "Sputnik Sweetheart"

"I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
--Vonnegut

"Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves"
-- Huxley

"Every transcendence beyond a known realm provides an overview of that realm, and deep insight into how it fits into the greater picture"
-- Frank White

Some of my favorites