Zadie Smith Quotes About Consciousness
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I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.
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When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
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I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of, instead of hiding the structure and making it look organic and natural, we're going to put the structure on the outside. But most of the time, at least for me, all I could attend to [in Swing Time] was that act of structural self-consciousness.
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