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

Betrayal, Ecstasy, Nothing

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

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"El infierno es saber que tenAas tan poca fe en mi amor que estabas dispuesta a condenarme a la agonAa de por vida."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Betrayal, Love, Faith, Loss, Emotion

"Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Betrayal, Dreams, Protection, Safety

"DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write "whore upon?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Betrayal, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Betrayal, Courage, Constancy, Self

"I was angry with him before. I'm not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it's been played on me twice."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Betrayal, Anger, Truth, Grief, World

"A bad friend is nothing but a spy."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Betrayal, Friend, Trust, Life

"Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Betrayal, Trauma, Pain, Protection

"By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Betrayal, Promise, Loyalty, Trust

"In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Betrayal, Love, Experience, Loss

"True love is tested when betrayed."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."

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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

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"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

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