Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

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.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Augusto Roa Bastos

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

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

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

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