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“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
— Viktor Frankl
Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor
Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
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