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“nothing is so strange when one is in love . . . as the complete indifference of other people.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” - 2003

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” - 1843

“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.” Charlie Chaplin, “Monsieur Verdoux” - 1947

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.” Agatha Christie, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” - 1920

“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.” Honoré de Balzac, “Father Goriot” - 1835

“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.” Thomas Hardy, “The Return of the Native” - 1878

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me—not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love—not your answer. Not even your indifference.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” - 2003

“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can’t feel a thing.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor” - 1999

“She was at the modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called 'having a fancy for.' It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.” Thomas Hardy, “The Return of the Native” - 1878

“there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

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