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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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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.

~ Ignazio Silone

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

~ Ignazio Silone

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

~ Ignazio Silone

On a group of theories one can found a school, but on a group of values one can found a culture.

~ Ignazio Silone