No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

- Romain Rolland

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

- Romain Rolland

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

- Romain Rolland

The friend who understands you, creates you.

- Romain Rolland

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

- Romain Rolland

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

- Romain Rolland

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

- Romain Rolland

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

- Romain Rolland

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

- Romain Rolland