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• What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Talent, Hiding, Persons

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• We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Responsibility, People, Desire

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• How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Keeping Secrets

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

  Ruth Wilson

  Religious, Believe, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

  Charles Palliser

  Betrayed, Virtue

  Charles Palliser (2015). “Betrayals”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

  Peter Kreeft

  Cheating, Lying, Divorce

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• The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Men, Envy

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• Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

  Alvin Toffler

  Spring, Youth, Education System

  Alvin Toffler (1974). “Learning for tomorrow: the role of the future in education”, Vintage Books USA

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• Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Offering, Grace

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

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• Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

  Richard Overy

  Past, Ideas, Desire

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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, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Men, Civilization

  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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• The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of mystery. They appear to betray some hidden intelligence which by a preconceived plan produces the impression of intentional design, a phenomenon which finds its close analogue in nature.

  Paul Carus

  Lying, Squares, Design

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• You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Fighting, Cutting

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.144, Penguin

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• Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absoluteky betray me.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Black

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• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Humanity

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• Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

  Wallace Stegner

  Loyalty, Lying, Hands

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• Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

  Robert Cormier

  Running, Brother, Heart

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Thinking, People

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

  Christopher Fry

  Vanity, Manage

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.23, Oberon Books

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• She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Faces, Potty

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• Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

  Jane Austen

  Body, Praying, Feels

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.251, CUP Archive

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• Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Heart, Thinking, Sometimes

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.160, DoctorZed Publishing

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• The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ignorant

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• I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mind, Want, Facts

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• when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Honest, Honest With Yourself

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.119, Penguin

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