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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
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Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who survived four Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. He lost his pregnant wife, his parents, and his brother in the Holocaust. He wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days after liberation, drawing on his experiences to argue that meaning — not pleasure — is the deepest human drive.

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