Maria Popova

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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl's Lost Lectures on Finding the Deepest Source of Meaning

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"“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in his classic 119-page essay _The Myth of Sisyphus_ in 1942. “Everything else… is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.” Sometimes, life asks this question not as a thought experiment but as a gauntlet hurled with the raw brutality of living."

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