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David1 quote
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. — David · 430 BCEdward Said1 quote
Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and a real bond with one's native place; the universal truth of exile is not that one has lost that love or home, but that inherent in each is an unexpected, unwelcome loss. Regard experiences then as if they were to disappear. — Edward Said · 1993God1 quote
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. — God · 1405 BCMoses1 quote
I have been a stranger in a strange land. — Moses · 1405 BCTheodor Adorno1 quote
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Willa Cather1 quote
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 · 1931