Abel Bonnard on escape
Abel Bonnard4 quotes · See all“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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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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