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I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.


Erich Maria Remarque

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ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I lo...
ERICH FROMM That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir...
ERICH FROMM The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically...
ERICH FROMM Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
ERICH FROMM Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
ERICH FROMM Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the sep...
ERICH FROMM Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational p...
ERICH FROMM Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love yo...
ERICH FROMM Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
ERICH SEGAL True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checke...
ERICH SEGAL Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ex...
ERICH FROMM As we can.
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