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Mar 24, 2022
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From Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman:

“All immigrants and exiles know the peculiar restlessness of an imagination that can never again have faith in its own absoluteness. ‘Only exiles are truly irreligious,’ a contemporary philosopher has said. Because I have learned the relativity of cultural meanings on my skin, I can never take any one set of meani…

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