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• The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

  Heather Brewer

  Heartbreak, Pain, Betrayal

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• It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

  David Levithan

  Trust, Betrayal, Mistake

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trust, Betrayal, Suffering

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

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• If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Betrayal, Men

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press

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• Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

  Bruno Jasienski

  Betrayal, Fear, Ignorance

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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

  Janet Malcolm

  Trust, Betrayal, Loneliness

  The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)

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• There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Laughter, Character

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.142, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Differences, Mexican, Chinese

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hurt, Truth, Fall

  "The Secrets of the Heart". Book by Khalil Gibran. Translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1947.

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• Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

  Hamid Karzai

  Brother, Pakistan, Afghanistan

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• A false tale often betrays itself.

  Aesop

  Lying, Tales

  Aesop (1968). “Aesop's Fables”, p.337, Library of Alexandria

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• But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you.

  Yun Kouga

  Forgiving, Should, Ifs

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• A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

  James Madison

  Causes, Failing

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.189

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• There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrite

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• Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other

  Richelle Mead

  People

  Lynsay Sands, Jackie H. Kessler, Richelle Mead, Hannah Howell, Jackie Kessler, Richelle Mead, Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands (2008). “Eternal Lover”, p.210, Kensington Books

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• One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lying, Opportunity, Plates

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.212, Penguin UK

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• The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

  Gregory Maguire

  Accessories, World, Traveler

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.73, Harper Collins

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• Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Absent, Pathetic

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• Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

  Frank Herbert

  Tone, Comedy, Psychological

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.431, Penguin

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• Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. 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, Father, Color

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• The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

  Jack London

  Couple, Men, Glasses

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.212, Lulu.com

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• There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Despair, Compromise, Easy

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• In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Vision, Trials

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins.

  Alison Croggon

  Hurt, Love Is, Long

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• Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

  Sara Gruen

  Betrayal, Mind, Body

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, 26 May 2006.

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