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Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

There is always time to take more time Picture Quote #1

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing Picture Quote #1

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness Picture Quote #1

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible Picture Quote #1

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what’s behind them Picture Quote #1

Man is an idiot. He doesn’t know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real Picture Quote #1

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition Picture Quote #1

Letters couldn’t care less whether what is written with them is true or false Picture Quote #1

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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 codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people Picture Quote #1

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There is always time to take more time (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) 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 Quotes) What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what’s behind them (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) Man is an idiot. He doesn’t know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) 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 Quotes) To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) 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 Quotes) Letters couldn’t care less whether what is written with them is true or false (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes) There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people (Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes)