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For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.

For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.
– Erich Fromm

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  2. That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. – Erich Fromm
  3. The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things. – Erich Fromm
  4. 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
  5. Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold. – Erich Fromm
  6. Love is a power which produces love. – Erich Fromm
  7. Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. – Erich Fromm
  8. The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.. – Erich Fromm
  9. The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. – Erich Fromm
  10. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. – Erich Fromm
  11. Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine. – Erich Fromm
  12. What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions. – Erich Fromm
  13. To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death. – Erich Fromm
  14. They were more free, but they were more alone. – Erich Fromm
  15. A society whose members are helpless need idols. – Erich Fromm
  16. The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life. – Erich Fromm
  17. They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity. – Erich Fromm
  18. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life. – Erich Fromm
  19. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm
  20. Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. – Erich Fromm
  21. We are what we do. – Erich Fromm
  22. The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness. – Erich Fromm
  23. Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown. – Erich Fromm
  24. Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. – Erich Fromm
  25. Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time. – William Shakespeare
  26. And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust – too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished – that animates him. – Anita Shreve
  27. One can’t reason away regret-it’s a bit like falling in love, falling into regret. – Graham Greene
  28. Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,Sweet to the father is his first-born’s birth,Sweet is revenge–especially to women – George Gordon Byron
  29. Here comes the rain again.Falling on my arms like a tragedy.Reminding me of pain, as these drops wash away the tears falling down my cheeks. – Shillpi S Banerrji
  30. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests – Johannes Kepler
  31. Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others. – Ken Wytsma
  32. I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control. – Emily Giffin
  33. Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary. – Crystal Woods
  34. I am falling in love with falling out of love – Karan Patade
  35. maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself – Nicola Yoon
  36. Is falling in love with someone’s story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? – Allie Condie
  37. The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly. – John Patrick Hickey
  38. There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. – Erich Segal
  39. Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it. – Erich Maria Remarque
  40. Falling in love is literally falling from your independence to let another control your life – Bangambiki Habyarimana

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