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Ignazio Silone Biography

Ignazio Silone (Italian: [iɲˈɲattsjo siˈloːne]; 1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli, a political leader, Italian novelist, and short-story writer, world famous during World War II for his powerful anti-Fascist novels. He was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature ten times.

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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.

Among, Civilization, Men, School, Theories

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Fascism, Rebellious, Revolution, Took

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Cowardly, Destiny, Invention, Luck, Resigned

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.

Book, Same, Soul, Willingly, Writing

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Intrigue, Privilege, State, States, Swindling

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

Twelve, Write, Writing, Years

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Achieves, Earthquake, Equality, Law, Men, Practice

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.

Authority, Fear, Freedom, Political, Religious

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

Brings, Doe, Right, War, Wrong

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

Communist, Communists, Conflict, Final, Finals

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

Life, Risk, Secure, Spiritual, Struggle

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

Liberty, Man, Men, Struggle, Sufficient

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.

Live, Passes, Real, Sometimes, Waiting

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Become, Enough, Growing Up, Night, Requires