“Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
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“In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile.”
Source: From Arenas’ work Before Night Falls (as quoted in “On Exile and the Longing for Home: Cuban Writer Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/on-exile-and-the-longing-_b_4451017; 2014 Feb 18)
“An exile is a refugee with a library!”
In The Light of what We Know (2014)
“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
“The poet is in exile whether he is or he is not.”
Paris Review interview (1986)
Context: I always had this feeling — I’ve heard other Jews say — that when you can’t find any other explanation for Jews, you say, “Well, they are poets.” There are a great many similarities. This is a theme running all through my stuff from the very beginning. The poet is in exile whether he is or he is not. Because of what everybody knows about society’s idea of the artist as a peripheral character and a potential bum. Or troublemaker. Well, the Jews began their career of troublemaking by inventing the God whom Wallace Stevens considers the ultimate poetic idea. And so I always thought of myself as being both in and out of society at the same time. Like the way most artists probably feel in order to survive — you have to at least pretend that you are “seriously” in the world. Or actually perform in it while you know that in your own soul you are not in it at all. You are outside observing it.
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 269 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017
“I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.”
tr. Phillip H. De Lacy and Benedict Einarson. Cf. full quotation at Leonard p. 54-55 https://books.google.com/books?id=omUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false
fr. 115, as paraphrased in Plutarch's Moralia
Purifications
Context: A law there is, an oracle of Doom, Of old enacted by the assembled gods, That if a Daemon—such as live for ages— Defile himself with foul and sinful murder, He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam Far from the Blest; such is the path I tread, I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.
“The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.”
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)
“Living in exile has its difficulties enough.”
Source: In the last 6 years, despite many difficulties, I have been able to grow in Thailand. Practicing in professional camps, including Venum, helped me improve my technical level in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). I have been involved in martial arts for 26 years and I plan to continue my professional training in the United States after the end of the COVID-19 epidemic. https://www.irna.ir/news/84454698/ IRNA News, (August 30, 2021)