Character: Ivan Dmitritch

- No, I want to know why you in understanding, contempt for suffering and so consider myself competent? Did you suffered sometime? You have a concept of suffering? Allow: you as a child sec?
- No, my parents had an aversion to corporal punishment.
- My father flogged severely. My father was tough, hemorrhoidal the official, with a long nose and a yellow neck. But let's talk about you. All your life you have not put her finger on, no you are not intimidated, did not score; you are healthy as an ox. You grew up under the wing of his father and studied at his expense, and then immediately seized the sinecure. More than twenty years you have lived rent free with heating, lighting, and service, while having the right to work as much as you like, even to do nothing. By nature you are a flabby, lazy man, and therefore tried to arrange your life so that you didn't care and didn't budge. Case you've passed the paramedic and other bastards, and we were sitting in the heat but in silence, save money, books to read, delight yourself thinking about different stuff and the sublime (Ivan Dmitritch looked at the red nose doctor) vypivka. In short, you see, did not know her at all, and the reality is known only in theory. And you despise suffering and nothing surprised for a very simple reason: vanity of vanities, the external and internal contempt for life, suffering and death, the understanding, the true blessing - all that is philosophy, the most suitable for Russian couch potato. See, for example, as a man beats his wife. Why to stand up? Let beats, still both will die sooner or later; and beating besides beating offends the wrong person has, and himself. To get drunk is stupid, indecent, but to drink is to die, and not to drink is to die. Comes a woman, a toothache... Well, that? Pain have a sense of pain, without disease will not live in this world all die, and therefore go on, woman, away, do not bother me to think and to drink vodka. The young man asks for advice on what to do, how to live; before you answer, another thought would be, and there's the answer: seek to understand, or to the true good. And what is fantastic is the "true benefit"? The answer is no, of course. We are kept here behind bars, left to rot, will statuut, but that's fine and reasonable, because between this ward and a warm, cozy office there is no difference. A convenient philosophy: have nothing to do and a clear conscience, and you feel you are wise... No, sir, it is not a philosophy, not thinking, not breadth of vision, and laziness, Fagersta, sleepy stupor... Yeah! - again, angry with Ivan Dmitritch. Suffering despise, but I bet you shut the door the finger, it will scream loudly!