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Rolland QUOTES

  • A hero is a man who does what he can.

  • There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

  • Passion is like genius: a miracle.

  • Most men are essentially dead by thirty.



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

  • No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

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

  • If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

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

  • Everything is music for the born musician.

  • 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.

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

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


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