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Quote by Erich Fromm
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. – Erich Fromm

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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. – Jean Racine

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you cant even think straight. – Marilyn French

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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. – Henry David Thoreau

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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. – Adrienne Rich

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I have a very good family. Im very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. Its one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. – Dan Quayle

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