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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I am not in exile.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

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.

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

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.