“All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

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American author and polymath 1932–2007

Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer

Word Play (1974)
Context: Thinking is language spoken to oneself. Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.

“…action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that they are linked, some sense that life has chapters.”

David Baddiel (1964) British comedian, novelist and television presenter

From the novel "Whatever Love Means"

“What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.”

Colin Wilson book The Outsider

Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter one, The Country of the Blind

“In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
Variant: In his lifetime, he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen; once dead, he is not even the ghost he was then.