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• To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Dream, Thinking

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• The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Light, Darkness, Meaning Of Life

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Apathy, Sin, Worst

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• If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Art, Struggle, Men

  Source: deadline.com

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• Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

  Richard Sherman

  Believe, Thinking, Way

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life And Love, Taken, People

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• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eye, Mind, Sahara

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.132, A&C Black

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• I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

  Colin Firth

  People, Good Work, Five

  "Happy Birthday Colin Firth! The Actor's Great Movie Moments" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. September 10, 2014.

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• What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

  Bob Dylan

  Scent, Kind, Reactions

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

  Terry Goodkind

  Goes On, Vastness, Tiny

  Terry Goodkind (2011). “Confessor”, p.583, Macmillan

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• Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.

  John C. Lilly

  Love Is, Religion, Lessons

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

  Tony Judt

  Generations, Wealth, Obsessed

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

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• What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Mind, Adjectives

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, Men, Adults

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• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

  Charles Babbage

  Wealth, Source, Process

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.4

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• I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Fall, Silence

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.253, Ballantine Books

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• Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Humanity, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.89, Stanford University Press

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• Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pride, People, Fake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Family, Christmas, Night

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• I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

  Marie Dressler

  Beautiful, Matter, Feels

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• The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Names, Church, Said

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

  Vasily Grossman

  Our Generation, Evil, Generations

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