“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No one can say farewell with indifference.”
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
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