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Erich Fromm

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

Love

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Erich Fromm is saying that people begin love with very high hopes and strong belief in its success. Despite these positive expectations, love often does not work out and ends in failure more frequently than most other efforts.

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