Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. - Augusto Roa Bastos

There were epochs in the history of the 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. - Augusto Roa Bastos

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. - 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 a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. - 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. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. - Augusto Roa Bastos

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

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