25 Quotes by Ignazio Silone

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.