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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

1956

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Nature of love Love

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Philosophical literature

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1956

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Erich Fromm

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Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. Harper & Brothers, 1956, ch. 2.

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