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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

— Viktor Frankl Man's Search for Meaning (1946)

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You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints."

Man's Search for Meaning (1946)

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.

Man's Search for Meaning (1946)

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Man's Search for Meaning (1946)

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.

Man's Search for Meaning (1946)

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life.

Man's Search for Meaning (1946)

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