The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

V.S. Naipaul

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It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Edwidge Danticat

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Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Martin Buber

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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.

Primo Levi

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Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Ovid

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It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Ovid

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Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

Ovid

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All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..

Janet Frame

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Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

Salman Rushdie

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Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home;exiles are are aware of at least two, and this plurality gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimensions...

Kobena Mercer

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