Everything is music for the born musician.
ROMAIN ROLLAND, Jean-Christophe
It is not peace that I seek, but life.
ROMAIN ROLLAND, Jean-Christophe
For a year I have been rich in enemies. Let me say this to them: they can hate me, but they will not teach me to hate. I have no concern with them. My business is to say what I believe to be fair and humane. Whether this pleases or irritates is not my business. I know that words once uttered make their way of themselves. Hopefully I sow them in the bloody soil. The harvest will come.
ROMAIN ROLLAND, preface, Above the Battle
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, Jean-Christophe
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
ROMAIN ROLLAND, attributed, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates
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, attributed, The Anchor Book of French Quotations (Guterman, 1963)
Stones are hard everywhere.
ROMAIN ROLLAND, Jean Christophe
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
ROMAIN ROLLAND, attributed, The Anchor Book of French Quotations (Guterman, 1963)
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