Primo Levi - Enemies Quotes

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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.

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Every man is the enemy
of every other,
With everyone split by an inner border,
The right hand enemy of the left.
On your feet, old men, enemies of yourselves:
Our war is never over.

Primo Levi

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

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