Romain Rolland quotes
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“There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.”
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“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.”
-- Romain RollandSource : "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.
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“There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.”
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“Most men are essentially dead by thirty.”
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“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1911). “Jean-Christophe”
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“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”
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“Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.”
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“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
-- Romain RollandSource : "On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers". Book by Kimberly Kirberger, 1999.
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“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”
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“The friend who understands you, creates you.”
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“Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.”
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“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”
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“To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”
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“Passion is like genius: a miracle.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”
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“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”
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“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”
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“I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.”
-- Romain RollandSource : "The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations". Book by Norbert Guterman, 1963.
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“Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.”
-- Romain RollandSource : "John Christopher: Storm and Stress".
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“Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.”
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“There are some dead who are more alive than the living.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1913). “Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe”
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“Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief.”
-- Romain RollandSource : "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1928.
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“Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.”
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“The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.”
-- Romain RollandSource : "John Christopher: Journey's end".
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“Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.”
-- Romain RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”
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