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exile

is like a plant without soil or water... it withers without blossoming and it bears no fruit.

Exile is like a plant without soil or water... it withers without blossoming and it bears no fruit. Moshe Ben Ezra

is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: Its essential sadness can never be surmounted. It is a crippling sorrow of estrangement.

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile's life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. Edward Said

is one who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador

is, like everything else, too much of a good thing.

Exile is, like everything else, too much of a good thing.

is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation : but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation : but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

is a dream of a glorious return, a vision of revolution, an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back, a ball hurled high into the air.

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.

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