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• It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Literature, Matter

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, People

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• He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth, Doe, Slavery

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• The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Journey

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• We, unaccustomed to courage
  exiles from delight
  live coiled in shells of loneliness
  until love leaves its high holy temple
  and comes into our sight
  to liberate us into life.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Courage, Loneliness

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• What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

  Lord Byron

  Demon, Blight, Pursue

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.57

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• We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Pain, Memories

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• Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

  Epictetus

  Death, Pain, Real

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.39

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• No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

  Marco Rubio

  Son, Titles, May

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• Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Compassion, Light

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• Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Rights, Understanding

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

  Elizabeth I

  Joy, Doubt, Foe

  c.1568 'The Doubt of Future Foes'.

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• Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

  Colin Wilson

  Home, Way, Way Home

  Colin Wilson (1982). “The Outsider”, Tarcher

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• It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

  Suketu Mehta

  Dream, Country, Cities

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• When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."

  Diogenes

  Home, People, Said

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• To hope is to send darkest night into exile.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Night, Hopeful

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• The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Powerful, Men, Guarantees

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2016). “Democracy in America”, p.42, Xist Publishing

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• To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Eye, Heart, Night

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.400, Aum Publications

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandchildren

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  World, Return, No Hope

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• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  House, Rooms, Homeland

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• You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

  Pico Iyer

  Loss, Opportunity, Benefits

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet's Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of course, these people are no longer Iraqi, they have no military, and there is no alliance. But they did have a meeting.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, People, Gathering

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• An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

  Jonas Mekas

  Home, Would Be, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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