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• All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Fate, Forever

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

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• It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

  Robertson Davies

  World, Way, Saws

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Home, Existence, Nothingness

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Eye, Seven Days

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.874, Penguin UK

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• There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Past, Needs

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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• They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Grief, Boredom, Woe

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Pain, Cutting, Envy

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• It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Iraq, Victory

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• Independence didn't have to be exile.

  Julia Alvarez

  Independence

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• Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

  John of Ruysbroeck

  Knowledge, Affection, States

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• Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a mixed experience. I hated them because they separated me from the dearest thing in the world-the struggle of my people for rebirth. At the same time, they were a blessing because I had what is so rare in this world-the opportunity of thinking about basic issues, the opportunity of examining afresh the beliefs I held.

  Sukarno

  Struggle, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

  Samuel Hall Lord

  Country, Two, Developing Countries

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• The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

  Clint Black

  Hate, Years, People

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• Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Gravitas, Mattresses, Significance

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• In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Years, Switzerland, Frozen

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• We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Political, Prison, Internals

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• I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

  Dree Hemingway

  Writing, Might, Wells

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• To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

  Eliphas Levi

  Giving, Hell, Rich

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• Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

  Emma Lazarus

  Mother, New York, Sunset

  "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).

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• I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

  George Santayana

  Echoes, Heaven, Sound

  George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

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• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

  Jane Addams

  Men, Race, Order

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

  Isabel Allende

  Reflection, Journey, Inward

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• Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.

  T.S. Mathews

  Silly, Men, People

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• We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.

  Haile Selassie

  War, Order, People

  "Days of Emperor and Clown : The Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936" by James Dugan and Laurence Davis Lafore, (p. 204), 1973.

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