"No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books."

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Source : "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

Romain Rolland

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“A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
“If voting made any difference, it would be illegal.”
“The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.”
“You have to do more than you get paid for because thatâ€™s where the fortune is.”
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]”
“Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.”

Source : "Former Breitbart Editor Ben Shapiro: Charges Absolutely Validate Michelle Fields' Allegations" by Tim Hains, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 29, 2016.
“The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.”
“In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.”

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