Abel Bonnard on escape
Abel Bonnard4 quotes“Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It’s escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It’s one more for trying to be less.”
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In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
Abel BonnardAbel Bonnard Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Abel BonnardAbel Bonnard It’s become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
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ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
AesopAesop We all use the future to escape the present.
John GreenJohn Green Escapism is survival to me.
Johnny DeppJohnny Depp In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
AesopAesop It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.
Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais NinAnais Nin