Love is union under the condition of
preserving one’s integrity, one’s individuality. Love is an active power in
man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow
men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of
isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his
integrity. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain
two.
Excerpt from The Art of Loving by
Erich Fromm
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