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QUOTES ON BETRAYAL

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER, The Poisonwood Bible

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

JOSEPH CONRAD, Some Reminiscences

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, Love's Shadow

Betrayal can only happen if you love.

JOHN LE CARRÉ, A Perfect Spy

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

JEAN GENET, Prisoner of Love

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Camino Real

Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.

ERICA JONG, Becoming Light

Each betrayal begins with trust.

PHISH, Farmhouse

We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

ROBERT GRAVES, The White Goddess


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