“ The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. ”
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“ By nature, I am a materialist… It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in. ”
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“ I cannot be a materialist — but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery — such suffering, such dreadful suffering — and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all? ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. ”
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