"Men killed to live - all of them"

People have always been like that: calculating, prudent, circumspect. Plunging in sphere of business, deeds, commotion, one inevitably becomes part of it, and if he wants to survive, there are certain rules that one must to follow. No rules at all. And as a consequence, life becomes something ruthless, cruel and not favourable. It takes all it can take, it gives back what it takes. In other words, life loses “all resemblance to humanity”, as soon as man is turned into “the abysmal brute”1 Whether we like it or not, but each of us comprises our “nice” society, where in order to live one has to obey. Who? And why? And what for? Life is so short, and why people are so persistent in their ambitions, if “we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out”2?! What is the purpose? Why there is so much greed and lust for things that vanish in the twinkling of an eye and are generally insignificant for the universe? And people, having no answers for these questions, will always go on “clashing together like naked savages, or even like atoms and star dust.”…