Word: mal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sensibility exposes us to all sorts of deceptions. Our desires can never be completely satisfied. Hence a certain melancholy which seized everyone and was later to be called "le mal du siecle." Sensibility is not merely the faculty of feeling emotions, but also that of undergoing sensations...