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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
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
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
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
Augusto Roa Bastos
The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.
Augusto Roa Bastos