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"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.

"What do you want, don't you know?" "I don't know.

"What do you need to eat and drink, don't you know?"

"I don't know. "And why do you eat and drink?"

"And how do I know why I eat and drink?" "You're hungry and thirsty, aren't you?"

"You never know. Sometimes I want to punch me in the face. But I don't give it.

"You don't punch me in the face, but you eat bread, don't you?"

"Well, what's so touching about it?" "And the fact that it is useful for you and you know about this benefit and eat according to this knowledge.