Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
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.
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
