“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.”
“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.”
“We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.”
“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”
“Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”