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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
George Steiner
Born: April 23, 1929
Died: February 3, 2020 (aged 90)
Bio: Francis George Steiner was a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust.
Known for:
- After Babel (1975)
- Real presences (1986)
- The Idea of Europe: An Essay (2004)
- Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1960)
- The death of tragedy (1961)
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