Quotes with exile

  • Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings.
  • Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
  • We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

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  • Aeschylus I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings.
    A woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Pope Gregory VII I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
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  • Jan Van Ruysbroeck Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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  • Marcel Proust No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Willa Cather Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Bhagat Singh Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Take up the White Man's burden - send forth the best ye breed - go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Antony Jay 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.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Albert Camus To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Albert Camus We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Lord Samuel Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
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  • Oscar Wilde Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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