ARAugusto Roa Bastos

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Augusto Roa Bastos

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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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02Undated

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

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

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05Undated

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

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06Undated

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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