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You write that laziness is my ideal state. That is not entirely accurate; I despise laziness as I despise weakness and flabby emotional responses. I was not talking about laziness but about idleness, moreover I said that idleness was not an ideal, merely that it was one of the indispensable conditions of personal happiness.
Anton Chekhov, “216. To Alexey Suvorin, 7 April 1897, Moscow”, Chekhov: A Life in Letters, trans. R. Bartlett and A. Phillips, Penguin, 2004, p. 368. (via msodradek)
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Byronic
[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.


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