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“To be too conscious is an illness – a real thorough-going illness. For a man’s everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is half or a quarter of the amount which fall to the lot of cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century”
Note for Underground, Dostoevsky.

“To be too conscious is an illness – a real thorough-going illness. For a man’s everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is half or a quarter of the amount which fall to the lot of cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century”
Note for Underground, Dostoevsky.