The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Augusto Roa Bastos
- It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain the truth, which is ever-changing in form and condition.
- To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
- Forms disappear, but words remain to signify the impossible.
- In all nations, an exceptional man exists that compensates for 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 points of reference.
- 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.
- Facts can’t be recounted—much less twice over and far less still by different persons. I’ve already drummed that thoroughly into your head.
- There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
- The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
- Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
- The great principle of justice is to 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 (1917–2005) was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most significant Latin American literary figures of the 20th century. Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Roa Bastos grew up amidst political and social upheavals, which greatly influenced his later works.
Roa Bastos’s writing often explored themes of power, dictatorship, and the complexities of Latin American identity. His masterpiece, “I, the Supreme” (“Yo el Supremo”), is a landmark novel that delves into the mind of Paraguay’s 19th-century dictator, Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia. The novel earned him international acclaim and the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1989, making him the first Paraguayan and one of the few non-Spanish writers to receive the honor.
Throughout his career, Roa Bastos faced political persecution due to his critical stance against authoritarian regimes. Forced into exile during the Paraguayan dictatorship, he lived in various countries, including Argentina and France. Despite challenges, Roa Bastos remained committed to addressing social and political issues through his literature. His richly textured prose, blending indigenous folklore with modernist techniques, left an enduring impact on Latin American literature, solidifying his legacy as a literary giant from Paraguay.
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