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Thus, for example, a feeling normally as individual as the ache of separation from those one loves suddenly became a feeling in which all shared alike andtogether with fear-the greatest affliction of the long period of exile that lay ahead.†
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Thus the first thing that plague brought to our town was exile.†
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It was undoubtedly the feeling of exile-that sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire.†
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It is noteworthy that our townspeople very quickly desisted, even in public, from a habit one might have expected them to formthat of trying to figure out the probable duration of their exile.†
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Thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.†
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Still, if it was an exile, it was, for most of us, exile in one's own home.†
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Still, if it was an exile, it was, for most of us, exile in one's own home.†
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And though the narrator experienced only the common form of exile, he cannot forget the case of those who, like Rambert the journalist and a good many others, had to endure an aggravated deprivation, since, being travelers caught by the plague and forced to stay where they were, they were cut off both from the person with whom they wanted to be and from their homes as well.†
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In the general exile they were the most exiled; since while time gave rise for them, as for us all, to the suffering appropriate to it, there was also for them the space factor; they were obsessed by it and at every moment knocked their heads against the walls of this huge and alien lazar-house secluding them from their lost homes.†
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In the general exile they were the most exiled; since while time gave rise for them, as for us all, to the suffering appropriate to it, there was also for them the space factor; they were obsessed by it and at every moment knocked their heads against the walls of this huge and alien lazar-house secluding them from their lost homes.†
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exiled = forced to leave one's homeland
Nevertheless—and this point is most important-however bitter their distress and however heavy their hearts, for all their emptiness, it can be truly said of these exiles that in the early period of the plague they could account themselves privileged.†
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Strongest of these emotions was the sense of exile and of deprivation, with all the crosscurrents of revolt and fear set up by these.†
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Such were the sights and apprehensions that kept alive in our townspeople their feeling of exile and separation.†
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For the first time exiles from those they loved had no reluctance to talk freely about them, using the same words as everybody else, and regarding their deprivation from the same angle as that from which they viewed the latest statistics of the epidemic.†
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Thus, while it is true that all who were parted came ultimately to this state, we must add that all did not attain it simultaneously; moreover, once this utter apathy had fallen on them, there were still flashes of lucidity, broken lights of memory that rekindled in the exiles a younger, keener sensibility.†
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That evening hour which for believers is the time to look into their consciences is hardest of all hours on the prisoner or exile who has nothing to look into but the void.†
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What impression, it may be asked, did these exiles of the plague make on the observer?†
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What with the gunshots echoing at the gates, the punctual thuds of rubber stamps marking the rhythm of lives and deaths, the files and fires, the panics and formalities, all alike were pledged to an ugly but recorded death, and, amidst noxious fumes and the muted clang of ambulances, all of us ate the same sour bread of exile, unconsciously waiting for the same reunion, the same miracle of peace regained.†
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In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once more those dreary evenings sifting down through a haze of dust and golden light upon the treeless streets filled with teeming crowds of men and women.†
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Pending that release, I know I have no place in the world of today; once I'd definitely refused to kill, I doomed myself to an exile that can never end.†
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And this time of waiting in silence and exile, in a limbo between joy and grief, seemed still crueler for the gladness all around them.†
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But this applies only to people who had not been eating their hearts out during the long months of exile, and not to parted lovers.†
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But the moment they saw the smoke of the approaching engine, the feeling of exile vanished before an uprush of overpowering, bewildering joy.†
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Yes, the plague had ended with the terror, and those passionately straining arms told what it had meant: exile and deprivation in the profoundest meaning of the words.†
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Yes, they had suffered together, in body no less than in soul, from a cruel leisure, exile without redress, thirst that was never slaked.†
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As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea.†
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All the same, following the dictates of his heart, he has deliberately taken the victims' side and tried to share with his fellow citizens the only certitudes they had in common-love, exile, and suffering.†
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(1) (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
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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