Romain Rolland

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Romain Rolland


Born
in Clamecy, Nièvre, France
January 29, 1866

Died
December 30, 1944

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Goethe, Leo Tolstoy


Varied works of French writer Romain Rolland include Jean Christophe (1904-1912), a series of satirical novels; he won the Nobel Prize of 1915 for literature.

The committee awarded him "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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“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
Romain Rolland

“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”
Romain Rolland, Above The Battle

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