Many of you who have not lived through the concentration camp will be astonished, and will ask me how a human being can endure all the things I have been talking about. I assure you, he who has experienced and survived all of that is even more amazed than you are! But do not forget this: the human psyche seems to behave in some ways like a vaulted arch: an arch that has become dilapidated can be supported by placing extra load on it. The human psyche also appears to be strengthened by experiencing a burden (at least to a particular degree and within certain limits). This is how, and this is
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