Romain Rolland Quotes

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek 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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The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

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Everything is music for the born musician.

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Vešla mu do srdce dveřmi jeho očí; vešla tam celičká a dveře se za ní zavřely.

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