If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it tha…

C. S. Lewis
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If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there? ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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