Man always dies before he is fully born.
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.Erich Fromm
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
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Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
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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.
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By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts, but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.
Erich Fromm
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
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