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The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

— Michel Houellebecq

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.

— Maria Sharapova

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

— John Grogan

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

— Josh Billings

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

— John le Carre

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.

— Jon Katz

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

— Enid Bagnold

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

— Jon Katz

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

— H. G. Bissinger

✗Opposing Perspectives

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

— Brigitte Bardot

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

— Samuel Butler