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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

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Erich Fromm
Age: 79 †
Born: 1900
Born: March 23
Died: 1980
Died: March 18
Philosopher
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Frankfurt/Main
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Narcissistic
Love
Egotism
Life
Attachment
Indifferent
Symbiotic
Indifference
Symbiosis
Loves
Psychoanalytic
Others
Enlarged
Persons
Egoism

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