Each one wants the other to love him but does not take into account the fact that to love is to want to be loved and that thus by wanting the other to love him, he only wants the other to want to be loved in turn.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Being and Nothingness
Topic love accounting
Date 1943
Language English
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Note Translated by Hazel E. Barnes
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