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

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

- Augusto Roa Bastos

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

- Augusto Roa Bastos

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 pr…

- Augusto Roa Bastos

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

- Augusto Roa Bastos

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

- 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.

- 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 …

- Augusto Roa Bastos