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.

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

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

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

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.