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“Life is about getting the right proportions of warm concern and cool indifference.”

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“لقد كان الإدراك حقاً سبباً من أسباب الشقاء، إلا أننا لا يمكن أن نتخلى عنه ما إن نكبر، لأن اللامبالاة ستورثنا المزيد من الأذى، أدركتُ حينئذ أنه ما أن نكبر لا يعود في إمكاننا أن نتخلى عن الإدراك ولن نرغب في ذلك أصلاً، لأنه إذا ما حدث ذلك سنوسم بالجنون.”

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Book:صراع الأقنعة

Source: صراع الأقنعة

“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy. This is why Buddhism can so easily turn into the very opposite of universal compassion: the advocacy of a ruthless military attitude, which is what the fate of Zen Buddhism aptly demonstrates.”

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Author:Slavoj Žižek

“The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept from its unacceptable conscious expression by the production of a physical symptom – so-called primary gain. Freud was the first to admit that this process of conversion was not always complete.”

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Author:Jon Stone

“Evil possessed myriad faces, and some of them were open and genuine. Whilst others, like Bauchelain’s, revealed nothing, nothing at all. Imid could not decide which of the two was more frightening.”

Evil Indifference

Book:Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

Source: Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

“This world is full of people who don't have a loving heart. People who are self centered and can't even bring a smile to another person's face. These people have to change themselves before they become cynics. The world needs love and kindness. The indifference that a majority of people have will not make them heroes of the future!”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

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Author:James D. Nicoll

“Some people are like an open grave: You give it the thing you love most And then get nothing in return.”

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Book:Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets

Source: Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets

“Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to everything except feeding, procreation, and defending their territory. The shark does not love. It feels no empathy. It trusts nothing. It lives in perfect harmony with its environment because it has no aspirations or desires. And no pity. A shark feels no sorrow, no remorse, hopes for nothing, dreams of nothing, has no illusions about itself or anything beyond itself.”

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Book:The Last Star

Source: The Last Star

“She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.”

Perspective Distance Indifference

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“I’ve pressed so far away from my desire that if you asked me what I want I would, accepting the harmonious completion of the drift, say annihilation, probably.”

Desire Indifference

Book:Brink Road

Source: Brink Road