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It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Alfred Polgar

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Alfred Polgar
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: October 17
Died: 1955
Died: April 24
Journalist
Linguist
Playwright
Translator
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Alfred Polak
Homeland
Foreign
Destiny
Becomes
Land
Become
Doe

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