Soplapin

“I should add…that just as it is important to avoid trivial conversation, it is important to avoid bad company... I mean also the company of zombies, of people whose soul is dead, although their body is alive, of people whose thoughts and conversation are trivial; who chatter instead of talk, and who assert cliché opinions instead of thinking.”
― Erich Fromm

“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees …. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love …. Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Being

“A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment