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• ‟ Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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• ‟ Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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• ‟ Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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• ‟ Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

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• ‟ In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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

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• ‟ Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

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• ‟ Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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• ‟ Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

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• ‟ Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

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• ‟ Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

  - Erich Fromm