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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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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