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Category: Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

content, form, 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.

belief, change, truth

Augusto Roa Bastos

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

content, form, words

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.

belief, change, truth