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# I Reread Man's Search for Meaning Every Year

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- By [KaiRenner](https://slatesource.com/u/KaiRenner)
- Philosophy & Religion
- Created on Apr 26, 2026

> Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms.

## The Book That Changes Depending on the Year

Viktor Frankl wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days and it has outlasted nearly everything published in that decade. I first read it when I was 26 and found it interesting but distant. At 29 I read it again after a period of grief and it broke me open completely. Each January I start it again from the first page. The book does not change. I do.

**165** Pages

**5** Annual Rereads

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# Rereading Man's Search for Meaning

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"Reading the preface last was the right move

03.01.2021 - 12.01.2025

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Currently in my sixth annual January reread, on the section about love as a source of meaning in the most extreme conditions imaginable.

Updated Apr 2026