“We are betrayed by what is false within”

“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.”

“In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits. ”

“A real politician, and these were real politicians, never betrays his country to an outsider. He betrays it to himself. He is the enemy within.”

“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”

“We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.”