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is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying.
What alone remains is “the last of human freedoms”—the ability to “choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.”
How can one awaken in a patient the feeling that he is responsible to life for something, however grim his circumstances may be?
“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.”
If my lack of emotion had not surprised me from the standpoint of professional interest, I would not remember this incident now, because there was so little feeling involved in it.
