exile, n.Definitions

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

Exile is an obsolete idea.

Exile is a tomb in which you can get mail.

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

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

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.

Exile 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 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.