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• The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Ignorance, Secret, Obstacles

  Guy de Maupassant (2016). “Bel Ami”, p.8, Guy de Maupassant

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• It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Self, Way

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sibling, Creativity, Towers

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• No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.

  Alethea Kontis

  Broken Heart, Men, Grieving

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

  Philippa Gregory

  Daughter, Mother, Betrayed

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• There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Sorrow, Progress

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you?

  Ryohgo Narita

  Love You, Enemy, Let Me

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• For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

  Coco Chanel

  Betrayal, Passion

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• Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

  Ken Follett

  Men, Betrayed

  Ken Follett (2010). “Code to Zero”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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• She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

  J. K. Rowling

  World, Might, Oddness

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• I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.

  Osamu Dazai

  Beautiful, Mother, Hate

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• Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

  Sylvia Plath

  Important, Company

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.70, Anchor

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• That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Animal, Thinking

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• If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.

  Kim Harrison

  Said, Fingers, Ifs

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• weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

  Jon Krakauer

  Loss, Mind, Irreparable

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• Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doe, May, Traitor

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Envy, Enemy, Overcoming

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• I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

  John Green

  Play, Strings

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.108, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

  Jodi Picoult

  Hands, Promise, Enemy

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Hurt, Pain, Betrayal

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.283, Macmillan

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• It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, World, Unforgettable Moments

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company

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