Abel Bonnard Professions : Poet Born : December 19, 1883 Died : May 31, 1968 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Abel Bonnard In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood. Abel Bonnard understood love needs Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire. Abel Bonnard admire choices friendship 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. 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. Abel Bonnard mediocrity trying giving Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors