“The matching of opposites produces the true rhythm of life.”

— 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.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”