“People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love, power, fame, revenge. Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.”

—  Erich Fromm

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 30

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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

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