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> [To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/to-write-does-not-mean-to-convert-the-real-into-words-but-to-make-the/)

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## More by Augusto Roa Bastos

> [Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/forms-disappear-words-remain-to-signify-the-impossible/)

[Augusto Roa Bastos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusto-roa-bastos/)

> [The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/the-great-principle-of-justice-prevent-crime-rather-than-punish-it/)

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> [Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/facts-can-t-be-recounted-much-less-twice-over-and-far-less-still-by/)

[Augusto Roa Bastos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusto-roa-bastos/)

> [There is always time to take more time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/there-is-always-time-to-take-more-time/)

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> [There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/there-were-epochs-in-the-history-of-humanity-in-which-the-writer-was/)

[Augusto Roa Bastos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusto-roa-bastos/)

> [To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/to-write-does-not-mean-to-convert-the-real-into-words-but-to-make-the/)

[Augusto Roa Bastos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusto-roa-bastos/)

> [In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/in-all-nations-an-exceptional-man-exists-that-compensates-the/)

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> [The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/the-things-that-have-come-into-being-change-continually-the-man-with/)

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> [It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/it-is-not-by-believing-but-by-doubting-that-one-can-attain-to-the/)

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> [Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/anyone-who-attempts-to-relate-his-life-loses-himself-in-the-immediate/)

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> [What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/what-happens-is-that-your-wretched-memory-remembers-the-words-and/)

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> [“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/the-dictionary-is-an-ossuary-of-empty-words/)

[Augusto Roa Bastos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusto-roa-bastos/)

> [Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-roa-bastos/letters-couldn-t-care-less-whether-what-is-written-with-them-is-true/)

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