Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
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