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Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

— Junot Diaz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

— Anita Shreve

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

— Honore de Balzac

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

— Mother Angelica

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

— John le Carre

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

— Octavio Paz

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

— Moliere

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

— Jim Sturgess

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

— Victor Hugo

✗Opposing Perspectives

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset