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“Mature love says: I need you because I love you.” — Erich Fromm

3 July 2017 By Andrew Leave a Comment

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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: /The Art of Loving/ (New York: Harper and Row, 1989) p.37

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