“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.’ Well, I say that there isn’t an ounce of truth in it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It would be the simplest thing to say, my homeland is where I was born. But when you returned, you found nothing.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil… — Antony Jay Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
“Exile is not a material thing, it is a spiritual thing. All corners of the earth are exactly the same. And anywhere… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything?… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
“When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure,… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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