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Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos

Novelist · Unknown · 1917 – 2005

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There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
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Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
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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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