To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994
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Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCBetter free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverb