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Augusto Roa Bastos [1917-2005]
Rank: 109
Novelist


Augusto Roa Bastos was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor.


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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
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Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
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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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