A hero is a man who does what he can.
About Romain Rolland
Romain Rollandwas a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and 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”.
He was an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, wrote a still relevant biography of Gandhi, and is also noted for his correspondence with numerous writers and thinkers across the globe including Maxim Gorki, Rabindranath Tagore and Sigmund Freud.
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It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
French author (1866-1944)
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
French author (1866-1944)
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
French author (1866-1944)
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
French author (1866-1944)
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
French author (1866-1944)
A hero is a man who does what he can.
French author (1866-1944)
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.
French author (1866-1944)