No one is rich in this land, no one is powerful--everyone is low and humble, powerless and weak against his vices, her vices. We are a nation (the ones who do not work and work, buy and buy; the ones who are not caught up in the illusions of the world). We are all poor and powerless; we are all humble and scattered. We have been routed and we don't have common uniforms or common camaraderie, nor leader nor voice. We are not caught up in the illusions of the world so we are punished by the world and tormented by the world, and left to lead solitary and painful lives. We are at least one in a hundred, for every hundred of you there is one of us, and you have seen to it that we shall be avoided and shunned, that we shall lead solitary lives. We are the ones of whom it is said, "They have no illusions sitting in their eyes," and this is why so many of us end up as suicides.
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