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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
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What this means, and why it matters to a father

Frankl wrote this in the context of what keeps human beings anchored to life. As a psychiatrist who had lost everything — his wife, his parents, his manuscript — he came to believe that love was not sentiment but the deepest form of perception: seeing a person not as they are, but as they could become.

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