Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.
Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.
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.
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional
Exile is a series of photographs without texts.
To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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.