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"I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism-religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality."
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"I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism-religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality."
"There is nothing around me but money, money, money."
"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."
"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure " attractively packaged but inferior in content."
"In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking."
"People are preoccupied only with money. They are looking to see where they can get it from. Hey, why are you looking for it in a 'cemetery'? This worldly life has become like a cemetery. There is no love to be seen in it. The way in which money comes to one is a natural thing. It is (by way of) scientific circumstantial evidences. Why do we have to run after it? If it were to free (liberate) us itself, then it would be very good, right?"
"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."
"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world."
"The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be...."
"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
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"A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law."
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with strange aeons even death may die."
"By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins."
"I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel."
"Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience."
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