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Exile Quotes

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile Picture Quote #1

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing Picture Quote #1

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away Picture Quote #1

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another Picture Quote #1

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family, but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything Picture Quote #1

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything Picture Quote #1

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But if there is no cosmic plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist Picture Quote #1

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune Picture Quote #1

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? Picture Quote #1

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of it's diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: The stars on a general's sleeve, the stock market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter related, had a meaning: my exile Picture Quote #1

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New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American Picture Quote #1

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us Picture Quote #1

I saw you with your envoy a consenting adult technique in moderation but vogue to the cult me i’ve got my strangers to exile in the night I guess i’m just addicted to the pain of delight Picture Quote #1

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in Picture Quote #1

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile Picture Quote #1

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile Picture Quote #1

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Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer Picture Quote #1

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves Picture Quote #1

I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain Picture Quote #1

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past Picture Quote #1

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one’s country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession Picture Quote #1

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

This 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 Picture Quote #1

Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the secret of life; do not despise those kingly desires. We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it Picture Quote #1

... I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye Picture Quote #1

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind... The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile (Exile Quotes) I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing (Exile Quotes) The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away (Exile Quotes) Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another (Exile Quotes) Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family, but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything (Exile Quotes) Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything (Exile Quotes) But if there is no cosmic plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist (Exile Quotes) The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune (Exile Quotes) Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers (Exile Quotes) 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 (Exile Quotes) Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? (Exile Quotes) Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of it's diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: The stars on a general's sleeve, the stock market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter related, had a meaning: my exile (Exile Quotes) New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American (Exile Quotes) To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us (Exile Quotes) I saw you with your envoy a consenting adult technique in moderation but vogue to the cult me i’ve got my strangers to exile in the night I guess i’m just addicted to the pain of delight (Exile Quotes) Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in (Exile Quotes) It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile (Exile Quotes) My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile (Exile Quotes) Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer (Exile Quotes) A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves (Exile Quotes) I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain (Exile Quotes) Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past (Exile Quotes) The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one’s country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession (Exile Quotes) As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew (Exile Quotes) Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room (Exile Quotes) This 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 (Exile Quotes) Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the secret of life; do not despise those kingly desires. We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it (Exile Quotes) ... I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye (Exile Quotes) Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind... The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book (Exile Quotes) 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 (Exile Quotes)

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