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Investigating this case was like trying to complete a puzzle, and when you find the piece that you think is the last one… you slot it in there and realize the puzzle is a picture of a hand that slaps you in the face and then bursts into a thousand more pieces.

Rory Powers, #091 The Lead Mask Deaths - Part 2, This Paranormal Life, 34:25

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Graham Harman’s universe is a universe populated by circuses and clowns, vampires, unnamed monsters, fire and cotton, and a host of other frightening and delightful carnivalesque entities that erupt across his pages like so many apparitions that simultaneously withdraw and capture us with their inherent fascination and allure.

Levi R. Bryant in The Democracy of Objects (2011), referring primarily to Graham Harman’s Circus Philosophicus (2010).

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Those who sit up high on the mountain looking down at us poor saps beneath, because they think they can see through everything, are the most deluded of all.

Timothy Morton in Hyperobjects (2013: 147)

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God is dead. And, as a matter of fact, I don’t feel too well either.

Alenka Zupančič, quoted by Graham Harman in Architecture and Objects: Art After Nature (2022)

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Neither brains nor minds can communicate. We cannot say what our brainwaves are “oscillating”, and we can’t even say what we think. What is said in communication is never equal to what is thought and felt in the mind.

Hans-Georg Moeller in Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems (2006: 11)

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Humans are among beings and are beings among being, they aren’t at the center of being, nor are they the necessary condition for being.

Levi R. Bryant in The Democracy of Objects (2011: 130)

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There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that.

Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942: 3)

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