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.

Romain Rolland

Inspirational, Heroism, World

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Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Romain Rolland

Men, Thirty

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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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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.

Romain Rolland

Men, Creating, Joy

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

Romain Rolland

Sunshine, Artist, Failing

Romain Rolland (1911). “Jean-Christophe”

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To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Romain Rolland

Hate

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

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

Romain Rolland

Cemetery, Carrie, Deep Down

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

Romain Rolland

Love, Life, Mistake

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

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The friend who understands you, creates you.

Romain Rolland

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Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Romain Rolland

Impossible, Claims, Discussion

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A hero is a man who does what he can.

Romain Rolland

Life, Positive, Courage

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

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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.

Romain Rolland

Loneliness, Men, Thinking

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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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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 Rolland

Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

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

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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 Rolland

Dream, Home, Men

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

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Passion is like genius: a miracle.

Romain Rolland

Passion, Miracle, Genius

Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”

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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 Rolland

Men, Light, Firsts

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

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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.

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Lying, Men, Rome

"John Christopher: Journey's end".

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

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Funny, Money, Animal

"The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations". Book by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

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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.

Romain Rolland

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.

Romain Rolland

Men, Ideas, Progress

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Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

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Art, Lying, Men

"John Christopher: Storm and Stress".

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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

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

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There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

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Death, Alive

Romain Rolland (1913). “Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe”

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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!

Romain Rolland

Distance, Hero, Book

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Born: January 29, 1866
Died: December 30, 1944
Occupation: Dramatist
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