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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.

Ignazio Silone

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Ignazio Silone
Age: 78 †
Born: 1900
Born: May 1
Died: 1978
Died: August 22
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Secondino Tranquilli
Secondo Tranquilli
Men
Dictatorship
Sufficient
Present
Struggle
Liberty
Free
Given
Thing

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