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Romain Rolland
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A hundred facts testify to how great an extent the East was mingled with Hellenic thought during the second century of our era.
— Appx. 3
Romain Rolland
French author (1866-1944)
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Updated 2026-06-21
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 for what the Swedish Academy called "the lofty idealism of his literary production" — then spent decades in correspondence with Gandhi, Tagore, Freud, and Gorki, writing across borders while Europe tore itself apart.
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Romain Rolland was born on 29 January 1866 in France and built a career that spanned drama, novels, essays, art history, and mysticism. The Nobel committee honored him in 1915 for the sympathy and love of truth with which he described different types of human beings. He became an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, eventually writing a biography of Gandhi that still holds relevance. His correspondence network stretched across continents: letters with Maxim Gorki, Tagore, Sigmund Freud, and other thinkers mapped a web of intellectual exchange through war and upheaval. He died on…
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Romain Rolland
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If there is one place on the face of the 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.
— Life of Ramakrishna (1929)
Romain Rolland
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Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas.
— Life of Ramakrishna (1929)
Romain Rolland
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The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas.
— Life of Ramakrishna (1929)
Romain Rolland
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The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.
— Life of Ramakrishna (1929)
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