Top 48 Romain Rolland Quotes
#2. It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
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#3. The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
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#4. The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.
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#5. When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.
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#6. As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.
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#7. A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages.
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#8. Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature ... whence we formerly took our flight.
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#9. Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
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#10. I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
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#12. I distrust official charity.All charity should be done by stealth.
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#13. A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.
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#14. I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
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#15. There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.
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#16. There are some dead who are more alive than the living.
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#18. 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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#19. How often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.
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#20. The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.
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#21. I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.
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#22. 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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#23. Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.
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#25. 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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#26. All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities
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#27. The public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature ... A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power!
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#28. Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
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#29. 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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#30. There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
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#31. Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.
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#33. Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.
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#34. History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
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#36. Let us seek truth everywhere;
let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
that will form the new ground.
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#37. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
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#38. Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
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#39. 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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#40. A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
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#41. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.
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#42. 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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#44. Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.
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#46. 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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#47. One makes mistakes; that is life.
But it is never a mistake to have loved.
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#48. One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!
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