"Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation. It is the bitterness of self-consciousness that we knowers know best. Critical of the illusions that sustained mankind in earlier times, this self-consciousness of ours does little to sustain us now. The question is: which is disenchanted, the world itself or the consciousness we have of it?"
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Saul Bellow, "A Matter of the Soul" (1975), in It all Adds Up (1994), pp. 75-76
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