#exile

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#forget #lies #longer #makes #redemption

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#astonishing #because #been #england #exile

I am not in exile. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#exile #i #i am

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fool #gives #human #imagination #makes

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? ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#been #camps #exile #home #identity

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#concept #continually #exile #loneliness #me

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#cannot #choice #country #exile #exiled

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#catastrophe #cities #destroyed #exile #exiled

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. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#belong #california #chile #exile #i