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• He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Secret, Nihilism, World

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Imperial Bedrooms”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

  Melina Marchetta

  Italian, Would Be, Gears

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.68, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Hate, Giving, Stronger

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• I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Needs, Affection

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• Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Hatred, Tolerance

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.502, Image

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• Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

  Albert Camus

  Sky

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

  T. S. Eliot

  Attachment, Self, Three

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

  Helen Fielding

  Valentine, Cynical, Matter

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicide, Waiting, Coward

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Father, Son, Jekyll

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

  William Merritt Chase

  Ambition, Succeed, Today

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• Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, Profound, Ordinary

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• Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.

  Branch Rickey

  Good Luck, Law, Design

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• One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

  Mordecai Ham

  Jesus, Giving Up, Humble

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• Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

  Randy Alcorn

  Life Changing, Luxury, May

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• We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Men, Lazy

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• So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Evil, Laziness, Overcoming

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• To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

  Isaac Watts

  Air, Inward, Dull

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• Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

  Violet Trefusis

  Thinking, Genuine, Thrive

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• If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  George F. Richards

  Love, Jesus, Children

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• The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

  Ian Kershaw

  Hate, Auschwitz, Built

  Ian Kershaw (2002). “Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945”, p.277, Oxford University Press

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• Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Husband, Father, Wife

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Chapter 3, 1792.

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• Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

  John Walford

  Art, Overcoming, Problem

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

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• "Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Mountain, Growing

  Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.972, Best Books on

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