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| N.B. This collection of quotes was begun on Jan. 14, 2006. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of these quotes, though we believe them to be accurate. | |||
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| "Nor is there any refuge in memory. For most writers-in-exile. . . recollections of childhood are a literary food source and have been hoarded, squirrel-wise, against the winter. . . " --Mary McCarthy: "Exiles, Expatriates,and Internal Emigrés" |
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| "Exile is strangel;y compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. . . The achievements of exile are permanently undermined by the loss of something left behind forever."
". . . [T]he interplay between nationalism and exile is ilke Hegel's dialectic of servant and master, opposites informing and constituting each other. All nationalisms in their early stages develop from a condition of estrangement. . ." "Exile is sometimes better than staying behind or not getting out: but only sometimes. "Exiles look at non-exiles with resentment. They belong in their surroundings, you feel, whereas an exile is always out of place. What is it like to be born in a place, to stay and live there, to kow that you are of it, more or less forever?" |
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| "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."---Simone Weil | |||