Augusto Roa Bastos said this quote

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

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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

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