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There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

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For the first time in years, she felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that she was alone here, an...

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For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an o...

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exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift f...

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Edward SaidReflections on Exile and Other Essays

I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ...

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Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hol...

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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God know...

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

This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real....

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Primo LeviIf This Is a Man / The Truce

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against ...

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Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, t...

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Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind o...

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Roberto BolañoBetween Parentheses: Essays

This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all ...

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There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until,...

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

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From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for e...

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Albert CamusThe Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The onl...

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Azar NafisiThe Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books