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Letter "I" » insensitivity
«The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity»
Author: Olivia Goldsmith
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insensitivity
«I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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accumulated, bit by bit, corroded, corrodes, corroding, deafness, disgusting, dismantle, dismantled, entrenched, entrenches, hardened, insensitivity, spurt, spurts
«There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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brutal, convicts, delicacy, fragility, insensitivity
«Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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confuse, insensitivity, peaceful, Peace of, peace of mind, sensitive, spaced-out, spaced
«It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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axiomatic, contradiction, dealings, insensitive, insensitivity, sensitive
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