Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

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

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  Real, Writing, Mean

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• 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.

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  Men, Copying, Generations

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• There is always time to take more time.

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  Advice, More Time

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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.

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  Believe, Doubt, Form

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• A las letras les importa un bledo si lo que se escribe con ellas es verdad o mentira.

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  True Or False, Care, Letters

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• Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

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  Impossible, Disappear, Form

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• 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.

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  Men, Humanity, States

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

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  Memories, Remember, Forget

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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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  Speak, Autobiography, Relate

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• Hubo épocas en la historia de la humanidad en las que el escritor era una persona sagrada. Escribió los libros sagrados, los libros universales, los códigos, la epopeya, los oráculos. Sentencias inscritas en los muros de las criptas; ejemplos en los portales de los templos. Pero en aquellos tiempos el escritor no era sólo un individuo; era el pueblo.

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  Wall, Book, Epic

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• 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.

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  Men, Squad, Justice

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• Las cosas que han surgido cambian continuamente. El hombre con buena memoria no recuerda nada porque no olvida nada.

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  Change, Memories, Men

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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.

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  Different, Facts, Persons

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