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1 " 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 , I the Supreme
2 " Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. "
3 " To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. "
4 " Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible. "
5 " The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words. "
6 " The great principle of Justice: 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. "
7 " Escribir no significa convertir lo real en palabras, sino hacer que la palabra sea real. "
8 " The words of power, of authority, words above words, will be transformed into clever, lying words. Words below words. "
9 " Your passion for hurrying stems from your belief that you're always present at the present. He who proclaims himself his own contemporary is misinformed. "
10 " Words are dirty by nature. "
11 " You have not yet destroyed oral tradition only because it is the one language that cannot be sacked, robbed, repeated, plagiarized, copied. What is spoken remains alive. "
12 " The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves. "
13 " I don't remember which writer of antiquity it is who speaks of an Old Woman-Devil, armed with a double set of teeth, one in her mouth, the other in her sex. . . . What is the meaning of the vulva-with-teeth if not the devouring nonengendering principle of the woman? "
14 " Ah, this blasted habit of mine of inventing or deriving words! "
15 " The hierarchies of this army become corrupted or go rotten, if instead of placing themselves completely at the service of Revolution, they place revolution in their service and degenerate. . . . The malice of the militia seems to be forever the same. "
16 " Five times every hundred years there is a February . . . without a [full] moon. "
