Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Ignazio Silone

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian novelist Ignazio Silone.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Secondino Tranquilli, known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone, was an Italian political leader, 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.

Italian - Novelist | May 1, 1900 - August 22, 1978

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

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

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

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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.

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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

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

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

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

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

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