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"How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself?"

"But all the same I am firmly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness. I stand on it."

Oh good I get to see the worst version of my inner monologue mirrored and amplified onto the page! Very clear this heavily influenced both Camus' "The Fall" and Sartre's Nausea.