giving

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” ― George Eliot

purple of Emperors

"he wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” ― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

do they count?

"The horror! The horror!” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
[loons of the past -1978-JONEStown Massacre- body count 918, Children and infants = 287]
[do they count?] US jet drops bomb into Afgan Village-9 school kids dead: US soldier goes bezerk kills 16 adults, women and children, etc, etc,?

pointlessness of existence

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage>And then is heard no more: it is a tale>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,>>>Signifying nothing.”― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
we live in the age.....The term nihilism is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws.[2] Movements such as Futurism and deconstruction,[3] among others, have been identified by commentators as "nihilistic" at various times in various contexts.
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Storie

 

We're all islands............

“We're all islands shouting lies............. to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

poisons

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.” ― August Strindberg

Million monkeys

“We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” ― Robert Wilensky

Rubbish = mongers

All writing is rubbish.People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going on in their minds are producing rubbish. The whole literary tribe is a pack of rubbish mongers, especially today.All those who have landmarks in their minds, I mean in a certain part of their heads, in well-defined sites in their skulls, all those who are masters of language,

all those for whom words have meaning, all those for whom the soul has its heights and thought its currents, those who are the spirits of the times, and who have given names to these currents of thought—I am thinking of their specific tasks, and of that mechanical creaking their minds produce at every gust of wind—are rubbish mongers.”― Antonin Artaud

 

Kant = Cans

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”― Immanuel Kant

Spengler

“To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed”― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World History

Turgenev, Smoke

“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”― Ivan Turgenev, Smoke

SWEET------http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcrGEj5ZwM

Nikolai Gogol

“But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeable with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.”― Nikolai Gogol

the lives of others

Good-movie; for all that are interested in Totalitarian regimes-the Stasi, if u have not studied Fascism and Communism u are politically naive..............
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others