Exile

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I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Moses

Exodus 2:22

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 2:22).

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And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis 4:16

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 4:16).

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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

1st Chronicles, 29:15

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Chronicles 29:15).

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For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

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A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

God

Genesis 4:12

To Cain, after he killed his brother Abel.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 4:12).

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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

Shadows on the Rock

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Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 3, ch. 5.

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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.