I the Supreme
Augusto Roa Bastos
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.”
“It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.”
“Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.”
“Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.”
“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.”
“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”
“Your passion for hurrying stems from your belief that you're always present at the present. He who proclaims himself his own contemporary is misinformed.”
“You have not yet destroyed oral tradition only because it is the one language that cannot be sacked, robbed, repeated, plagiarized, copied. What is spoken remains alive.”
“Words are dirty by nature.”
“The words of power, of authority, words above words, will be transformed into clever, lying words. Words below words.”
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