“I hear Siva dancing, dancing in the heart of the world, in my own heart.”

— Romain Rolland, Life of Ramakrishna (1929)

About Romain Rolland

1866 – 1944

French novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (1915).

“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”

“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.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”