| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17883 |
| QUOTATION: | It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others, of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (18681963), U.S. civil rights leader, author. The Souls of Black Folk, ch. 1 (1903). |
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