Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the… — Viktor Frankl · Skopia

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Autobiography and memoir

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

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Freedom Decisions and choices Attitude and mindset

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Autobiography and memoir

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

Original citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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