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Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I am not in exile.

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

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

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the continent of Europe, finds the contrast between a government of power and a government of opinion forced upon him at every step.

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.