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• For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Heart, Firsts

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

  Edith Wharton

  Hands, People, Golden

  "Complete Works of Edith Wharton".

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• Against Nature's silence I use action In the vast indifference I invent a meaning I don't watch unmoved I intervene and say that this and this are wrong and I work to alter them and improve them The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes

  Peter Weiss

  Eye, Hair, Silence

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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• She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Two, Desire

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Journey, Tourism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

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• The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Money, Defense, Fragility

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• I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

  Edmund Burke

  Imagination, Understanding, Mind

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• The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Men, Vanity

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

  William Hazlitt

  Sympathy, Perfect

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Matter, Figures

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if it had its own way, would prefer to step away from the whole struggle between love and hate, to walk away from the only real game in the world and wallow in its own mediocrity.

  Mark R. Woodward

  Love, Hate, Real

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• To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

  Marya Mannes

  Ethics, Morality, Deprivation

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on to children, often through the dynamic of self-protection. It hurts to be neglected, and it creates questions about our value to others. So to avoid feeling the sting of further rejection, we refuse to give that part of ourselves we fear might once again be received with indifference.

  Larry Crabb

  Hurt, Children, Dad

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

  Cesare Pavese

  Perfect, Behavior, Born

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

  Barry Lopez

  Hate, Love Is, Opposites

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• The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Europe, Hatred, Brilliant

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 245, 1856.

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• Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

  John Landis Mason

  Neutrality

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• 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

  Jesus, Causes, Bears

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• I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Husband, Father

  Entry for May 03, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

  Ariana Franklin

  Love, Beautiful, Art

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• The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

  Ntozake Shange

  Pain, Kindness, Confused

  Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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• I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart.

  John Fowles

  Girl, Sex, Loneliness

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Hatred

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• We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Tolerance, Degenerates, Permit

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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