“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.”
Source: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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Karl Marx 290
German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and … 1818–1883Related quotes

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