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“Whom can I ask what I came
to make happen in the world?”
― Pablo Neruda

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“I want to see thirst
In the syllables,
Touch fire
In the sound;
Feel through the dark
For the scream.”
― Pablo Neruda

“exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”
― Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays