This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting:....

“ 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. ”

Primo Levi

From : If This Is a Man / The Truce