Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

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

Augusto Roa Bastos

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

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

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

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

Augusto Roa Bastos

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

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

Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos

Born: June 13, 1917

Died: April 26, 2005 (aged 87)

Bio: Augusto Roa Bastos was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor.

Known for:

I, the Supreme (1974)
Hijo de hombre (1960)
Madama Sui (1995)
El Trueno Entre Las Hojas (1953)
El Fiscal (1993)

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