Ignazio Silone famous quotes
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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our real life will begin. And so life passes by.
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No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
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Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
-- Ignazio Silone
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