The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V.S. NaipaulIt'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 DanticatEveryone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
Martin BuberThis 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 LeviOur native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.
OvidTags: exile homesickness
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
OvidTags: exile homesickness
Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.
OvidTags: love longing exile homesickness
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 FrameExile 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 RushdieMost 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...
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