A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
It is natural to die as to be born.
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?