Both Uses of
exile
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- And if it be pain for a mother to be parted from her child, for a man to be exiled from hearth and home, for friend to be sundered from friend, O think what pain, what anguish it must be for the poor soul to be spurned from the presence of the supremely good and loving Creator Who has called that soul into existence from nothingness and sustained it in life and loved it with an immeasurable love.†
Chpt 3 *
- I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use— silence, exile, and cunning.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(exile) to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be