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Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes Page 1 of 1Augusto Roa Bastos June 13, 1917 - April 26, 2005 Nationality: Paraguayan Category: Novelist
| 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. | What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. | 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. |
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