Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him…

— Farid al-Din Attar

What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find…

— Albert Camus

I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no…

— Albert Camus

Independence didn't have to be exile.

— Julia Alvarez

In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be…

— Jonathan Martin

“The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked to inflict…

— Nabokov i Tyrants Destroyed i

I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow…

— Leigh Newman

Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of…

— Paula Gunn Allen

The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with…

— Steven Pressfield

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good…

— Jonah Goldberg

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We…

— Isabel Allende