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Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.
Romain Rolland
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Romain Rolland
Age: 78 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 29
Died: 1944
Died: December 30
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A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.
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Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
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To understand everything is to hate nothing.
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I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.
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No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.
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History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
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Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
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