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Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself. This awareness of himself as a separate entity, the awareness of his own short life span, of the fact that he will die before those whom he loves, or they before him, the awareness of his aloneness and separateness, of his helplessness before the forces of nature and of society, all this makes his separate, disunited existence an unbearable prison. He would become insane could he not liberate himself from the prison and reach out, unite himself in some form or other with others, with the world outside.
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Erich Fromm,
The Art of Loving
My therapist recommended Fromm's
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/fromm.html books way back when I first met her in 1980ish. I read 2 or 3 (because she liked him and I wanted to know what she liked :-) and they stuck with me. This little book,
The Art of Loving is a best seller, the one he's most known for.