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"Tolerance is another word for indifference."
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"What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?"
"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."
"Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?"
"The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely indifferent to popular opinion."
"All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people."
"It's only awkward if it matters."
"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."
"The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals."
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it."
"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
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