self-conscious quotes

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, themost self-conscious people inthe world, and themost addictedtothebeliefthattheothernations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

-James, Henry
  Hawthorne, ch.6.

Every race which has become self-conscious and idea- bound in the past has perished.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.7.

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