Colin Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back."
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Exile
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Italo Calvino
Writer
"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile."
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way."
Zbigniew Herbert
Poet
"And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City"
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"Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?"
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"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."
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"I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile."
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"The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile."
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"Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!"
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"Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers."
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"The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy."
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"I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself."
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"To hope is to send darkest night into exile."
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"No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists."
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"It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile."
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"If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one."
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"What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought."
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