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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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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm

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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. – Alfred A. Montapert

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We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we dont mean. – Will Smith

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours. – Charles Caleb Colton

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mothers side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. – Erich Fromm

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