The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity.
Erich Fromm, Art of Loving
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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Two striking ideas by Fromm
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