Who said "I would say the most important thing is consciousness."?

This quote is attributed to William S. Burroughs.

I would say the most important thing is consciousness. - William S. Burroughs

"I would say the most important thing is consciousness."

William S. Burroughs

Novelist American 1914–1997

"When you stop growing you start dying."

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words."

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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a bafflement to you."