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• One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

  Steven Dietz

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Deceit

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.59, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

  Sidney Hook

  Betrayal, Cost, Hook

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  Kate Millett

  Mother, Committed, Felt

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  Cao Cao

  Betrayal, World, Kingdoms

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• Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

  Suzanne Somers

  People, Perfect, Age

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  Vicente Fox

  Change, Betrayal, Accomplished

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• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Guilt, Looks

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• All has been looted, betrayed, sold;
  black death's wing flashed ahead.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Wings, Black, Has Beens

  "Looted". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1921.

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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

  Betrayal, Years, Fans

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• Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

  Jean Genet

  Betrayal, Ecstasy, Knows

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Betrayal, Betray, Transmit

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.10, Schocken

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• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Tolerance, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Holocaust, Doe

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• All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Betrayal, Men, Betraying Friends

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1449, Book House

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• Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, My Heart, Wounds

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• On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Night, Giving

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• The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.

  MacDonald Harris

  Men, Hatred, Identity

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• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  Ed Harris

  Betrayal, Betray

  "Ed Harris’ ‘Westworld’ Turn Was A Perfect Late-Career Move For One of Our Best Actors - Career Watch" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. June 05, 2017.

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• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Anger, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

  Jay McInerney

  Irony, Symbols

  Jay McInerney (2014). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.54, A&C Black

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• We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Deception, Enemy

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• All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

  Bill Vaughan

  Betrayal, Lying, Commitment

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• Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Regret, Party, Guilt

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• As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

  Ada Leverson

  Betrayal, Two, Found

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love's Shadow”, p.265, tredition

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