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Description

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “for the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour”
  • “He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How”
  • “Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now”
  • “Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions”
  • “therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated”

First Sentence

THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE AN ACCOUNT OF facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of prisoners have suffered time and again.

Authors & Contributors

  1. VIKTOR E. FRANKL
  2. Viktor Emil Frankl (Author)
 

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