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.

Edith Wharton
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  2. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. - Christopher Pike

  3. She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. - Susan Wiggs

  4. But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. - Unknown

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More Quotes By Edith Wharton
  1. Each time you happen to me all over again.

  2. There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  3. Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me.

  4. Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

  5. To know when to be generous and when firm–that is wisdom.

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