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• I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

  Anna Kavan

  People, Wish, Mountain

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• fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.

  Evadne Price

  Fear, Indifference

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• The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. At the age of twelve years, he embraced the rigid system of the Stoics, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason; to consider virtue as the only good, vice as the only evil, all things external as things indifferent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.92

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• A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Office, Clerks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Gone Away, Silence

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• We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Atheist, Distance, Thinking

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• You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

  Sue Grafton

  Hate, People, Rage

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

  Joe Sacco

  Opportunity, Doors, Invites

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• The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.

  Tony Robbins

  Unique, Individuality, Use

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.

  Linda Blair

  Thinking, Looks, Firsts

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Photography, Lying, Hands

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• A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.

  Osamu Dazai

  Pain, Liars, Writing

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• It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

  Alain Ducasse

  Challenges, Intellectual, Sensual

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• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

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• I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Pie, Cooks, I Can

  "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Change, Knowledge, Example

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Work, Garden

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Country, Strong, Europe

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.129

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• The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

  James Monroe

  Character, Rights, Important

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• Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

  Richard Dawkins

  Suffering, Atheism, Kind

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Limits, Exceed, Misfortunes

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Teacher, Art, Cheerleader

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• How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, Religious, Leader

  Daniel Lapin (1999). “America's Real War”, Multnomah Books

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• This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

  Fanny Burney

  Country, Time, Way

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