"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."
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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
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"Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other."
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"But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference."
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"Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is."
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"There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference."
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"To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!"
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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."
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"The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference."
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"'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people."
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"It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference"
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"And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all."
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"The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference."
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"Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?"
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"For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference."
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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."
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"There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts."
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"Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology."
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"Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life."
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"Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference."
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