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Romain Rolland

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I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.


— Romain Rolland


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


— Romain Rolland


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Everything is music for the born musician.


— Romain Rolland


#identity #music #musicians #self-knowledge #music

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


— Romain Rolland


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


— Romain Rolland


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


— Romain Rolland


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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.


— Romain Rolland


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


— Romain Rolland


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A hero is a man who does what he can.


— Romain Rolland


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


— Romain Rolland


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[citation needed] Rolland served unofficially as ambassador of French artists to the Soviet Union. This correspondence introduced Freud to the concept of the "oceanic feeling" that Rolland had developed through his study of Eastern mysticism. Academic career
He became a history teacher at Lycée Henri IV then at the Lycée Louis le Grand and member of the École française de Rome then a professor of the History of Music at the Sorbonne and History Professor at the École Normale Supérieure.

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