21 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

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.

-Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente...-¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui.-Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de <>, aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios,

-Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente...-¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui.-Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de "novela", aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios,

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