Exile
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Exile is the nursery of nationality.
—George Santayana
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Exile is the price we pay
for self-knowledge.
—Okot p’Bitek
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Exile is the way
we become ourselves.
—Salman Rushdie
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The worst exile is exile
from oneself.
—Seneca
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We are all exiles
from our past selves.
—Jeanette Winterson
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In exile, the smallest details of home become treasures.
—Mahmoud Darwish
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Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
—Naguib Mahfouz
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Exile is not so much a separation from one’s country as it is a perpetual longing for it.
—Isabel Allende
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Exile is the place where hope becomes geography.
—Bei Dao
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Exile is the dream
of a glorious return.
—Kofi Awoonor
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Exile without end
is no exile;
it is a life.
—Aleksandar Hemon
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Poem: The Exile Tells His Friends