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"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."

—Erich Fromm (1900-80) German-born American psychoanalyst, emphasized role of social conditioning

 

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Faltering Facebook phone is delayed 
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Lesbian drama is Cannes favourite 
  Fri, 24 May 2013 12:01:30 GMT 
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  Thu, 23 May 2013 16:23:12 GMT 
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