Romain Rolland Quotes

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No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. And the most objective books are the most deceptive. 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.

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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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Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all others.

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

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Born: January 29, 1866

Died: December 30, 1944 (aged 78)

Bio: Romain Rolland was a French writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 after the publication of his major work, Jean-Christophe.

Known for:

Jean-Christophe (1904)
Pierre And Luc (1920)
Colas Breugnon (1914)
Above the Battle (1917)

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