No! That's impossible! And this, too, is bad, one-sided, abstract, unrealistic.

I have to act. The question is: for what and for whom and for how long? "You must always act.

"But why?"

"Man (this is an action. - I don't want to!

"What don't you want?" Don't you want to be a man?

"I don't want to act!" "But you must act.

"I don't want to.

"But you'll be forced. "If they force me, then others will act, not me.

"And this is your ideal?"

"This is my freedom.

"To be beaten with a whip?" — To disagree.

"For reasonable work, for active work, for free action?" "Yes.

"Lack of culture!

"I don't want to. Do you understand?"

"I don't want anything, I don't want anything?" "Yes!"

"Don't you want to live either?"

"That's my business.

"No, brother, don't dodge. Don't you want to live either? Tell! "Maybe I don't want to either."

"No, not 'maybe,' but you speak plainly. "Whether I want it or not, you can't force me to act. For whom? For yourself? But today you are, and tomorrow you are gone. For you? Same! For future generations? And what do I care about them if I die?

"You don't want to live?" — It depends. If it's like this, then I definitely don't want to.

"Not like now, but in general. "And what do you mean by 'in general'?"

— Well, to live, despite all the conditions and circumstances of life. "'Despite' - I don't want to. I only want to "see".

"A self-seeker, they say?" "A free man, not a slave. That's what they say.

"But what kind of freedom is it if you don't want to do anything, don't want to act, don't recognize practice? Well, do you recognize any benefit? Do you want people to benefit or not? Finally, do you want to benefit yourself or not?

"Do you know what benefit is?"

"Everyone knows what good is. "I don't know.

"You're lying. You know.

"I don't know.