“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

—  Erich Fromm

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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

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