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“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

Source: Quoted in Man's Search for Meaning and attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust surviv… 1905–1997

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