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Augusto Roa Bastos

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AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plag...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've alread...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothin...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote t...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
AUGUSTO BASTOS Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another...
AUGUSTO BASTOS The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothin...
AUGUSTO BASTOS There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote t...
AUGUSTO BASTOS Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've alread...
AUGUSTO BASTOS Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plag...
AUGUSTO BASTOS In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In thos...
AUGUSTO BASTOS Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is
HERBERT KAUFMAN Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
HERBERT KAUFMAN Disappear, she says. I love that word.
WILL CHRISTOPHER BAER The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms
KAMILA SHAMSIE Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, wh...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it
STORM JAMESON It's physically impossible to shoot them all. If one animal hears something, they sound the alarm an...
JANET HANSEN In two words, impossible.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify q...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify q...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk ba...
HARVEY COX Impossible is impossible. It is the only one-word oxymoron. But you need at least two words for that...
R. N. PRASHER My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE will not remain mere empty words.
LEVY MWANAWASA My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
CONFUCIUS Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
CONFUCIUS Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men
CONFUCIUS The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS We don't usually wish we were invisible unless, for some extreme reason, we were noticed first.
JOYCE RACHELLE You know you're being yourself when you 'please' without trying (so hard).
MITTA XININDLU Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, an...
JAMIE VALENTIN Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed ...
LAUREN HAMMOND There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.
ANKITA SINGHAL It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t...
MELVYN BRAGG It is impossible to be diligent and work hard and remain poor, success will come to the man who work...
SUNDAY ADELAJA What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
GEORGE VILLIERS Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or le...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossib...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
PROVERB It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade,
ARLEN SPECTER In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative ...
ALVIN KERNAN You got to die for 'It'. Or you'll remain a religious nutcase. In other words, a dickhead, nitwit.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Every living word that gives life was once without form.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the...
CAPT ROBERT LEWIS Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
VICTOR HUGO My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.
BILL NELSON In doing what is necessary you sometimes end up doing the impossible.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO ABRACADABRA.By _Abracadabra_ we signify An infinite number of things.'Tis the answer to What? and Ho...
AMBROSE BIERCE It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone e...
SAMUEL ROGERS But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may...
DAVID EDDINGS In a quarell, what hurts me most are my own words, so i prefer to remain silent to avoid being hurt
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU It's not easy to cram so much idiocy, mendacity and arrogance into nine words. ... Dean's assertion ...
JAMES TARANTO Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time agai...
SUSAN ORLEAN We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain aliv...
MUNIA KHAN Moons appear and disappear; rings appear and disappear.
JACK LISSAUER It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attac...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND People kept coming out of the woodwork. To describe to them what it's like will be impossible to put...
CAITLIN CAHOW Situations come to pass, they never come to stay. And when we allow them to pass and disappear into ...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT I am disappearing, maybe I'm already gone.
JENNIFER NIVEN I feel as if I'm disappearing. I wake, I work, I eat, I sleep. No family, no great career. I could d...
MIRANDA EMMERSON Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remai...
AMIT RAY [In another spot, Beethoven puts in numbers to signify the fingering.] It's so touching, ... It mean...
STEPHEN ROE On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'Yo...
MITT ROMNEY In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, lin...
LEO TOLSTOY I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I w...
DANA CARVEY There is far more spiritual potential within than most people realize. The potential is so great tha...
BELSEBUUB A misty day does not signify a cloudy day, it signifies frizzy hair.
ANONYMOUS The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestio...
JERRY B. JENKINS Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us an...
THOMAS LYNCH On the blank page all things are possible.
MARTY RUBIN The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
ELLEN G. WHITE The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt...
PIET MONDRIAN Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.
ECKHART TOLLE His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble pro...
JOSEPH CONRAD The words may sparkle for sometime. The words may vanish after sometime. but what they meant will re...
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