Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. - Augusto Roa Bastos

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I think the way that I delivered my request for acting was undeniable, and I think that I was blessed enough to have parents who saw it as something that there was no argument about. For that, I will always be grateful.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

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

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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

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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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There is always time to take more time.

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Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

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