Quotes About Exile
Tyrone, after wandering with his family through France, the Netherlands, and Germany, finally took up residence in Italy, subsidized by the Pope. Every night, deep in his cups, he would brag that come Hell or high water he would die in Ireland. In 1616 the great rebel O'Neill passed away, a frustrated exile, in Venice. T
~ Robin Maxwell
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One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment. One woman is our ancestral gardener, a cocreator of the good green world that would be the home of her descendants. The other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to her real home in heaven.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
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They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.
~ Robin Wasserman
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Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease—that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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Exile, for no other reason than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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Oscar and I are very close, and yet I know that part of him is still withdrawn, even from me. As though part of him was still in another place. Another country. Journeying, perhaps. Or in exile. Across the sea. And I can't be with him, because I haven't got the right sort of passport.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
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Waters of the Waingunga, the Man Pack have cast me out. I did them no harm, but they were afraid of me. Why?
~ Rudyard Kipling
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Wolf Pack, ye have cast me out too. The jungle is shut to me and the village gates are shut. Why?
~ Rudyard Kipling
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I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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You've never known what it is to live in the diaspora, in a country like Poland where you're hated for one crime—being a Jew.
~ Ruth Gruber
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Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.
~ Salman Rushdie
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Exile is a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air. He hangs there, frozen in time, translated into a photograph; denied motion, suspended impossibly above his native earth, he awaits the inevitable moment at which the photograph must begin to move, and the earth reclaim its own.
~ Salman Rushdie
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This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.
~ Salman Rushdie
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En el exilio todo intento de arraigo se considera traición: es el reconocimiento de la derrota.
~ Salman Rushdie
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Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot… I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied that I— even I—had dreamed.
~ Salman Rushdie
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When Don Anastasio Somoza fled the country, he took with him everything he could carry, including all the cash in the national treasury. He even had the bodies of Tacho I and Luis Somoza dug up and they, too, went into exile. No doubt he would have taken the land as well, if he'd known how.
~ Salman Rushdie
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Siz olsan?z, s?n?rlar?n karanl?k taraf?na sürgün edildiÄŸinizde karanl??? ayd?nl??a çevirmeye çal??maz m?yd?n?z?
~ Salman Rushdie
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Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air. He hangs there, frozen in time, translated into a photograph; denied motion, suspended impossibly above his native earth, he awaits the inevitable moment at which the photograph must begin to move, and the earth reclaim its own.
~ Salman Rushdie
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Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpots … I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied than I—even I—had dreamed.
~ Salman Rushdie
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they have nowhere else to go, and nobody else to be
~ Salman Rushdie
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Exilatul nu poate uita - si trebuie, prin urmare, sa simuleze - arsita uscata din Desh, fostul si viitorul lui taram, in care pana si Luna este fierbinte si picura ca niste lipii proaspete, date cu unt. O, cat de dor ii e de acea parte a lumii, unde soarele si luna sunt de genul masculin, dar lumina lor dulce si fierbinte are intotdeauna nume femeiesti!...
~ Salman Rushdie
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Hayat?m?n doÄŸal ak???ndan sürgün edilince bildiÄŸim her ÅŸeyin z?tt?n? sahiplenmekten baÅŸka ne ÅŸans?m vard?? Kar??-natüralizmi kastediyorum, o tersi düz, say?klamal?, abuk sabuk günlerin tek gerçek izmi. Siz olsan?z, s?n?rlar?n karanl?k taraf?na sürgün edildiÄŸinizde karanl??? ayd?nl??a çevirmeye çal??maz m?yd?n?z?
~ Salman Rushdie
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In exile, the furniture is ugly, expensive, all brought at the same time in the same store and in too much of a hurry[.]
~ Salman Rushdie
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Cornelius was stretched on his couch, with broken wrists and crushed fingers. He had not confessed a crime of which he was not guilty; and now, after three days of agony, he once more breathed freely, on being informed that the judges, from whom he had expected death, were only condemning him to exile.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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