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“I myself have often pursued strange rats, I have inflicted wounds, I have bitten, I have killed. I know this hatred very well, the hatred of an intruder, an alien, a stranger heralding the arrival of others, who from those that are pursued and attacked may easily turn into those that pursue and attack.”

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