Romain Rolland Short Quotes

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It is not peace that I seek, but life.

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A hero is the one who does what he can. The others don't.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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