Author of quotes: Romain Rolland. Page 5

From any nation, in any art, you can find your share of hypocrisy. The world eats a grain of truth and plenty of lies. Weak the human mind: it does not tolerate the truth in a pure form; it is necessary that religion, morality, politics, to poets and artists have given him the truth in the husk of lies. The lie posing as the spirit of the nation: it changes its appearance according to the peculiarities of each of them; it lies so complicates mutual understanding between peoples, but mutual contempt occurs easily and quickly. All I breathe it in from the cradle to the grave; it becomes some sort of an indispensable accessory of life. And only a few geniuses can shake off this lie, heroically overcome the crises that they have to survive alone in the open world of his thoughts.