Khalatnost

The idleness, the moral inertia, the sense of futility were all sure symptoms of what the Russians called ‘khalatnost’: literally ‘dressing-gowness’, the tendency to loll about doing nothing and thinking futile thoughts. It is in such minds that gambling debts, desperate philiosophies and suicides are hatched.

-A.N. Wilson Tolstoy

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