Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the e… - Anton Chekhov

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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it — just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.