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Category: Ignazio Silone

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the 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.

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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.

democracy, freedom, growth, self

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

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

conscience, excuses, intelligence

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

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

conscience, excuses, intelligence