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Home is wherever I go.

—Indira Gandhi, 1955

Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?

—Georg Büchner, 1835

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

—Gregory VII, c. 1085

Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.

—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999

Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?

—Victoria Wolff, 1943

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

—Arnold Toynbee, 1948

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

—Simone Weil, 1943

To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.

—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994

Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.

—Romalyn Ante, 2020

Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.

—Dragging Canoe, 1775

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.

—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

—Socrates, c. 420 BC