Anton Chekhov Quote

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.

The Lady with the Dog: And Other Stories (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1934) - ISBN: 9781465513359