Augusto Roa Bastos Inspirational Quotes (7)

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 that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

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 a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

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.