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Romain Rolland

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“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. ... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.”
— Le Théâtre du peuple (1903)
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
— "Inter arma Caritas", Journal de Genève (30 October 1914), reported in Rhoda Thomas Tripp (ed.) The International Thesaurus of Quotations (NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1970) p. 685
“Are you descendants of Goethe or of Attila the Hun?”
— 1914 open letter to the Germans as a reaction to the torching of the The Academic Library of the Louvain Catholic University in Belgium. Reported in Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August (NY: Macmillan, 1962) p. 321
“In politics, he has always been a republican with advanced Socialist sympathies, and internationalist at heart, and, as they said in the eighteenth century, a "citizen of the world." He has always fought social injustice. In art, he loves, above all, Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Goethe...Rembrandt is the painter dearest to him. But his chosen country is Italy.”
— On himself, as quoted in World Authors 1900-1950 (1996)
“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
— As quoted in Kimberly Kirberger, On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers (1999)
“A hundred facts testify to how great an extent the East was mingled with Hellenic thought during the second century of our era.”
— Appx. 3

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