A self-immolating desire for the truth [1m]

I highlight a lot as I read, but rarely review what I’ve highlighted. I finally got around to trolling through several years worth of quotes, and was rewarded with several gems like this: Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective — even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. Area X Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer I was going to just drop…