Quotation by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, April 27, 1899, to L.A. Avilova. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 8, p. 159, "Nauka" (1976).
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