Romain Rolland
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"Romain Rolland" was a France/French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and Mysticism/mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

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A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.

Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

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

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration.

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.

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

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

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