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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  Inspirational, Heroism, World

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• Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

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  Men, Thirty

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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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  Men, Creating, Joy

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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.

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  Healing, Thinking, Years

  Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”

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• No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

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  Book, Reading Books

  "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

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• It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

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  Sunshine, Artist, Failing

  Romain Rolland (1911). “Jean-Christophe”

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• A hero is a man who does what he can.

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  Life, Positive, Courage

  Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”

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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.

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  Dream, Home, Men

  Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”

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• One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

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  Love, Life, Mistake

  "On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers". Book by Kimberly Kirberger, 1999.

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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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  Loneliness, Men, Thinking

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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.

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  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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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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  Impossible, Claims, Discussion

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• The friend who understands you, creates you.

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• To understand everything is to hate nothing.

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  Hate

  Romain Rolland (1914). “Jean-Christophe: Journey's End”

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

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  Distance, Hero, Book

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• Passion is like genius: a miracle.

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  Passion, Miracle, Genius

  Romain Rolland (1938). “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.

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  Running, Religious, Atheist

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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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  Animal, Race, Shadow

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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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  Men, Ideas, Progress

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• Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

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  Cemetery, Carrie, Deep Down

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• Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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  Faith, Yesterday, Way

  Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”

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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.

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  Men, Light, Firsts

  Romain Rolland (1962). “John Christopher: Journey's end”

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• If there is one place on the face of the 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. For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay.

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  Dream, Home, Men

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1928.

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• Everything is music for the born musician.

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  Musician, Born

  Romain Rolland (1910). “John Christopher: Dawn and Morning: By Romain Rolland; Tr. by Gilbert Cannan”

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• You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

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  Art, Fighting, People

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