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And if the City falls and one survives
he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
he shall be the City

Zbigniew Herbert

Fall, Cities, Ifs

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What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.

Peter Ackroyd

Home, Land, People

"The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.

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Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

Uma Krishnaswami

War, Heart, Emotional

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Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.

George W. Bush

Struggle, Men, Israel

"Bush Speaks At Holocaust Memorial Event". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. April 19, 2001.

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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Sheep, Liberty, Fields

"The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 3, 1943.

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I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Saint Patrick

Heart, Bishops, Tribes

"Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

Henning Mankell

Cities, Organization, Village

Henning Mankell (2011). “The Dogs of Rig: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.298, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

Shimon Peres

Swimming, Years, Israel

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The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

Delmore Schwartz

Country, Jew, Fury

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Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

Michael Ondaatje

Country, Brother, Fate

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Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.

Herbert Adams Gibbons

Loss, Turkeys, Race

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Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

Whittaker Chambers

Mind, Revolutionary, Trotsky

Whittaker Chambers (1964). “Cold Friday”, New York

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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

Walker Percy

Angel, Men, Self

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The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

David Whyte

Home, Moments

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It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

Martha Gellhorn

Believe, Farewell, Land

Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.

Joan Didion

Night, August, President

FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 14, 2015

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Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.

Sean Wilentz

Light, Giving, Historical

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Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.

Hisham Matar

Men, Justice, Doubt

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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

Madison Smartt Bell

Ends, 1960s, Begin Again

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The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

Ismail Kadaré

Distance

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

Oscar Wilde

Country, Home, America

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I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
Is all the pain.

Ovid

Pain, Punishment, Faults

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exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

Phyllis Chesler

Psychology, Twenties, Might

Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press

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Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Children, Spain, Germany

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I believe if I should die,
And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie
Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains,
The folded orbs would open at thy breath,
And from its exile in the Isles of Death
Life would come gladly back along my veins.

Mary Ashley Townsend

Death, Lying, Believe

Mary Ashley Townsend, Ralph Lee Woodward (2001). “Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend”, p.9, University of Alabama Press

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