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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong>TO MADAME AVILOV.NICE, October 6, 1897.… You complain that my heroes are gloomy—alas! that’s not myfault. This happens apart from my will, and when I write it does notseem to me that I am writing gloomily; in any case, as I work I amalways in excellent spirits. It has been observed that gloomy, melancholypeople always write cheerfully, while those who enjoy life puttheir depression into their writings. And I am a man who enjoyslife; the first thirty years <strong>of</strong> my life I have lived as they say in pleasureand content ….355

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