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We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we t...

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It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I ho...

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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them ...

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Agatha ChristieThe Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't ev...

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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ...

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Treaties are like marriage: they aren't entered in to with the thought of betrayal, and once they're...

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And you know, I agree to everything:I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Foot...

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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the p...

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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other ...

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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend...

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I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't thi...

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In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known,...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the ...

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

They meet again at dinner--again, next day-- again, for many days in succession. Lady Dedlock is alw...

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After discovering him in his threesome, I spent the next two weeks in bed suffering from a severe ca...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends

O cousin Kate, my love was true,Your love was writ in sand:If he had fooled not me but you,If you ha...

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they...

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There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...

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May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a s...

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Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when on...

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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in...

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But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christoph...

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We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great o...

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend i...

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Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. P...

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Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? Th...

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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could ma...

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Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about...

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The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin,

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...

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A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

The history of mankind," said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the...

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And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignoran...

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Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone...

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The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain o...

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Heather BrewerNinth Grade Slays

Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than ...

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Hunter S. ThompsonAncient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

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What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'I...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Children of Húrin

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...

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There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a f...

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...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to...

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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Betrayal is beautiful.

There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create ...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that...

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Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me""Do what?""Push me off the same cliff twice

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

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The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say th...

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...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understa...

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Growth is betrayal.

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out...

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John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find...

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Katherine Anne PorterThe Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t...

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He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a bi...

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Protect me from my friendsI can take care of my enemies

It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with s...

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Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and negl...

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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could ...

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When a man loves a woman, as our old troubadours used to say, even if he has heard or seen something...

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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificen...

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If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due

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Muriel SparkThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat o...

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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus sta...

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That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely ple...

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Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation.""What was it, target practice? Chinese ...

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Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with...

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She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any ...

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Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

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Peter J. CarrollPsybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is...

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Samuel R. DelanyThe Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the pric...

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A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a wo...

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