Mature Love

Infantile love follows the

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Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved. Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love. Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you. Erich Fromm

I need you because

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I need you because I love you. Erich Fromm

Immature love says: ‘I

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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

I am dead against

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I am dead against art’s being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower’s pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas … Read more

I love you for

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I love you for the part of me that you bring out. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Absence diminishes mediocre passions

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld