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.’

  The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

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• To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.

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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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