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• Think about the number of times someone will say to herself, "I want to get out of this circumstance, but I'm too afraid. I'll lie about how happy I am in this marriage, and I'll put up a front." But she's betraying everything that's in her heart. She's making choices that are harming her, and that's why she's hurting. Her intuition is trying to tell her that.

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Lying, Heart

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The body is what reminds us on a daily basis that we're human. The body defies us, it betrays us, we have to struggle with it, you know. And it reveals in curious and in abiding ways how we are not perfect.

  Junot Diaz

  Struggle, Perfect, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.

  Andrew Solomon

  Doe, Would Be, Betrayed

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Important, Settling

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.224, Graphic Arts Books

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• First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.

  T.C. Boyle

  Dream, Heart, Smell

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• One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  People, Sorrow, Cholera

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1528, Penguin UK

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• ... love always betrays its intentions.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Intention, Love Always

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

  P. C. Cast

  Home, People, Sometimes

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.256, Macmillan

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• Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Want, Language

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

  David Gemmell

  Heart, Decisions You Make, Judgement

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• I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Thinking, Servant Of God

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

  Marvin Gaye

  Eye, Heart, Artist

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• The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

  Paulo Coelho

  Grace, World, Return

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• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Average, Ideas

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• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Secret, Vices

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• I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

  Cato the Younger

  People, Liberty, Treason

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• To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Democracy, Principles, Definitions

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• Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

  James A. Baldwin

  Thinking, Views, Revelations

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• Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Names, Sake

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• At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , " he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17)

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Heart, Sound

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• True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells? Maybe it would be easy - like holding his hand or having his arms around me. Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't fell like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Betrayal, Nice, Princess

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• All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.

  Novala Takemoto

  Past

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• It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Heart, People

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jul 29, 2011

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• The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Boys, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

  John Robinson

  Leaving, Important, Trying

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