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

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

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

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysteriou...

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Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted isla...

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No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

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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Everything is music for the born musician.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic messag...

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A hero is a man who does what he can.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from...

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Romain Rolland

Dramatist

Born: 1866-01-29

Died: 1944-12-30

Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 after the publication of his major work, Jean-Christophe.More