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.
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
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
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. - Augusto Roa Bastos
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. - Augusto Roa Bastos
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
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 … - 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 …
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. - Augusto Roa Bastos
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
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… - Augusto Roa Bastos
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…
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible. - Augusto Roa Bastos
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them - Augusto Roa Bastos
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in… - Augusto Roa Bastos
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in…
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