Every love to which there clings but the smallest speck of obligation is an unselfish love, and, so far as this speck reaches, a possessedness. He who believes that he owes the object of his love anything loves romantically or religiously.

— Max Stirner The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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