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She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indiff...

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She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was b...

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasur...

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Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indif...

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He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so har...

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There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it fo...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indif...

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What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established ...

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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who c...

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You can't be neutral on a moving train.

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Nowadays, it is true, we have mass media and expert propaganda to spread suspicion and fear. But the...

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...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fi...

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Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him...

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Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the...

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Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubt...

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Lesslie NewbiginFoolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subj...

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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war i...

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It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ...

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Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi...

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It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words an...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the ...

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his mean...

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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

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Richard DawkinsRiver Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to w...

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He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the w...

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Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would ...

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...

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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to ackno...

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If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was...

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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv...

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...

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But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...

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Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of ...

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And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear ...

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Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-...

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The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with...

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Bruno SchulzThe Street of Crocodiles

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone ...

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Cesare PaveseIl mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of li...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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