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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.

  Greg Behrendt

  Cheating, Betrayal Of Trust

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

  Hallie Burnett

  Passion, Writing, Life And Death

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• No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats…these are the facts.

  Alexander Trocchi

  Writing, Journey, Cities

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Strong, Stars, Love Is

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• How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Art, Pain

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• Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Faults, Bears, Betray

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 265-67, Maxims, 1922.

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• I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

  Oriah Dreamer

  Pain, Grieving, Sorrow

  "The invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, 1999.

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• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Unrequited Love, Memorable

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• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

  Don Bassingthwaite

  Friendship, Eye, Dark

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• Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

  Simone Weil

  Brother, Military, Police

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• All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust, Risk, Possibility

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Mistake

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• Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

  Anne Bronte

  Eye, Heart, Over You

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.150, Diversion Books

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• I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

  August Wilson

  Play, Ideas, Honor

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• Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Falling In Love, Children, Husband

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• I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Fall, Lakes, Soul

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• Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

  Francis Beaumont

  Hurt, Love Is, Greatest Love

  The Maid's Tragedy act 5 (written 1610 - 1611). Coauthored with John Fletcher.

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• When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

  Frank Herbert

  Trying, Scream

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.34, Penguin

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• Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Shapes, Danger

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.90

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• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

  Thomas Moore

  Disappointment, Loss, Soul

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Sex, Erotic, Innocent

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.228, Macmillan

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• People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

  Mary Alice

  Angel, Compassion, Light

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• If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

  John Mellencamp

  Years, Fans, Records

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• Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries... Broken is the promise, Betrayal... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail... Follow the god that failed.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Believe, Eye

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