In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates 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 point of reference.
Augusto Roa BastosFacts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.
Augusto Roa BastosIt is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
Augusto Roa BastosThere 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.
Augusto Roa Bastos