Decadence Quote by 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 state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.”

Augusto Roa Bastos

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Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

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

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

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