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title: "Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/erich-fromm-the-art-of-loving
published: 2012-07-13
summary: "A passage from Erich Fromm I wanted to keep, on why the people closest to us need never become too familiar."
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# Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

> If our experience of another person went deeper, if we could feel the whole boundlessness of his personality, that other person would never become so familiar, and the miracle of breaking through the barriers could happen anew every day.