Life Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

— 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…

— Augusto Roa Bastos

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.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

There is always time to take more time.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the…

— Augusto Roa Bastos

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

— 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…

— Augusto Roa Bastos

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

— Augusto Roa Bastos

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

— Augusto Roa Bastos

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

— Augusto Roa Bastos