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Viktor Frankl1905–1997

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.

Viktor Frankl on life and death

Man’s Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 67 in the 1959 Beacon Press edition

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