I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due

Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.

...The world gets blessed every now and then with unique souls who though burdened by their invisible crosses, still have the extraordinary strength to forge ahead in life and give others a helping hand at the same time. Despite their tribulations, most of us think they are fine. Even when the weight of their crosses become unbearable, even when they proceed in a breathless manner, we still have a hard time understanding that they are drowning. In fact, we even condemn them for failing to sacrifice more...