Earthly cries, the sufferings of the ages fluttered round him like a flight of famished gulls. The passions of strength { never of weakness } were striving within his lion’s heart. He was energy personified, and action was is message to men. For him, as for Beethoven, it was the root of all the virtues. He went so... far in his aversion to passivity, whose secular yoke weighs so heavily on the patient bovine brow of the East, as to say, “ Above all, be strong, be manly! I have a respect even for one who is wicked, so long as he is manly and strong; for his strength will make him some day give up his wickedness, or even give up all work for selfish ends, and will then eventually bring him into the Truth. “
- Romain Rolland On Swami Vivekananda
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