Romain Rolland Quotes - Page 2

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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 Rolland

  Lying, Men, Rome

  "John Christopher: Journey's end".

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• It is not peace that I seek, but life.

  Romain Rolland

  Romain Rolland (1928). “Jean-Christophe: Journey's end”

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• I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

  Romain Rolland

  War, Conflict, Praise

  Inter arma Caritas, Journal de Genève, October 30, 1914.

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• The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

  Romain Rolland

  Artist, Storm, Compass

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

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• Everything is music for the born musician.

  Romain Rolland

  Musician, Born

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

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• You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

  Romain Rolland

  Hero, Silly, Men

  Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”

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

  Romain Rolland

  Faith, Yesterday, Way

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

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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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• The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

  Romain Rolland

  Book, Fire, Impact

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

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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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• 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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  Truth, Blow, Wind

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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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• 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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• You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.

  Romain Rolland

  Silly, Hero, Want

  Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”

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• Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

  Romain Rolland

  Virtue, Foolish, Theory

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

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• When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

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  Soul, Action, Reason

  Romain Rolland (1910). “Jean-Christophe: Dawn. Morning. Youth. Revolt”

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• Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

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  Dream, People, Theatre

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

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  Air, Space, Elements

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• 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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  War, Hallucinations, Injustice

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

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• 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.

  Romain Rolland

  Struggle, Years, Giving

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• 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

  Romain Rolland

  Responsibility, Men, Luxury

  Romain Rolland (1910). “Dawn. Morning. Youth. Revolt”

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• 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!

  Romain Rolland

  Lying, War, Errors

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

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• The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.

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  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "Life of Vivekananda". Book by Romain Rolland, 1944.

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• The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

  Romain Rolland

  Art, Theatre, Humans

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

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• 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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  People, Theatre, Able

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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