Ignazio Silone

Author

1900-05-01

Books by Ignazio Silone

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How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.
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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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But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
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But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
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How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.
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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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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain-the equality of all men.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
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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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