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"One is not loved accidentally; one's own power to love produces love - just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they forget that the essence of attractiveness is their own capacity to love. To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for his life, not only for his physical existence but for the growth and development of all his human powers. To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person's life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth."
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"Be kind to express your love for life. No reason is needed to be kind."
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."
"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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"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist."
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
"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."
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