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Recollections: An Autobiography QUOTES

1 " On one of those first days back in Vienna, I looked up my friend Paul Polak and told him about the deaths of my parents, my brother, and Tilly. I remember that I burst into tears and said: “Paul, I must tell you, that when all this happens to someone, to be tested in such a way, that it must have some meaning. I have a feeling—and I don’t know how else to say it—that something waits for me. That something is expected of me, that I am destined for something.” After this I felt relieved, and no one could have understood me better than my dear old friend, Paul Polak. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

2 " In 1946, I lectured in the French occupation zone of Austria. I spoke against collective guilt in the presence of the commanding general of the French forces. The next day a university professor came to me, himself a former SS officer, with tears in his eyes. He asked how I could find the courage to take an open stand against collective guilt. “You can’t do it,” I told him. “You would be speaking out of self-interest. But I am the former inmate number 119104, and I can do it. Therefore I must. People will listen to me, and so it is my obligation to speak against it. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

3 " Sounding out to bless me and perhaps to say
That you forgive me that I live. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

4 " Auschwitz. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

5 " at the lectern in a large, beautiful, warm and bright hall. I was about to give a lecture to an interested audience on, “Psychotherapeutic Experiences in a Concentration Camp” (the actual title I later used at that congress41 "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

6 " Under the same conditions, those who were oriented toward the future, toward a meaning that waited to be fulfilled—these persons were more likely to survive. Nardini and Lifton, two American military psychiatrists, "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

7 " knowledge, Tilly did volunteer and, for whatever reasons, was approved for transport. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

8 " I was trying to tell her that, if she found herself in a situation where she could save her life only at the price of yielding sexually, she should not feel inhibited out of any consideration for me. By giving her, so to speak, an absolution in advance, I was hoping to spare myself the guilt if such an inhibition might lead to her death. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

9 " Tilly must have been among them. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography

10 " You don’t retire from a job (which may have become stale) but to an activity that is meaningful to you. "

― Viktor E. Frankl , Recollections: An Autobiography