Beauty Quote by Andre Aciman

“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native…

— Edward Said

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls…

— Lin Yutang

“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country.”

— M.T Anderson

“It is a mistake to think of the expatriate as someone who abdicates, who withdraws and humbles himself, resigned to his miseries, his outcast…

— Emil Cioran

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a…

— Ismail Kadaré

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert…

— Colm Tóibín

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to receive, but…

— William Somerset Maugham