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position in society, the awards they win, their bank accounts, yachts, real
estate, and the people that praise and esteem them are all apparitions in their
brains, they are consumed by a tremendous anger. They avoid accepting this
fact in all their arrogance because, they realize that it implies that their esteem,
reputation and property will not be worth the ambitious commitments they

have made. But no matter how hard they try to escape this reality, they cannot
change the fact that they lead the whole of their lives inside their skulls.

A person who receives an award
because of his success receives
the award in his brain and
receives applause from
impressions of people formed in
his brain.

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