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"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling— it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?"

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About Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm was a German-born social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher associated with the Frankfurt School. Born in Frankfurt in 1900, he developed influential ideas on freedom, authority, and human needs in modern society. He died in Muralto, Switzerland, on 1980-03-18.

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