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« Our entire culture is based on an appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually beneficial exchange. The modern man finds his happiness in frantically looking at the shop windows and buying everything that his means allow him to acquire, in cash or temperament. »
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Erich Fromm
The art of loving |
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The art of loving
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« (...) if our conscious fear is not to be loved, our real fear, but generally unconscious, is to love. To love means to compromise without guarantee, to indulge without reservation, hoping that our love will engender love in the beloved. Love is an act of faith, and has little faith in love. »
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Erich Fromm
The art of loving |
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Erich Fromm
The art of loving
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« Most people are not even aware of their need for conformism. They live with the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualistic, that the opinions they have reached represent the culmination of their own reflection - and that, if their ideas are in line with those of the majority, it is a coincidence. »
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Erich Fromm
The art of loving |
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Erich Fromm
The art of loving
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