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"Betrayal brings its perpetrator to the lowest depths, and he loses all trust among people."
"A loyal dog is better than a thousand treacherous friends."
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind."
"Love comes to those who still hope after disappointment, who still believe after betrayal, and who still love after they’ve been hurt."
"I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you."
"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."
"Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final."
"Look. What happened, that was just business. Personal betrayal I can understand. But never betrayal of one’s people you serve, or your country."
"Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace."
"Every great work of art … is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life."
"Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal."
"On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor."
"I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
"The act of treachery is an art, but the traitor himself is a piece of shit."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.