4 Quotes by Paraguayan authors

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Paraguayan voices thread Spanish with Guaraní, speaking in a cadence both tender and flinty. Their sayings lean on red earth and river light, on tereré circles where humor and counsel share a gourd. Expect guarania’s melancholic sway beside the harp’s brightness; stubborn hope tempered by memory of silencios. Love arrives plainspoken, che rohayhu, and truth, añetete, walks barefoot. These lines favor community over spectacle, craft over noise, recalling ñandutí lace, Chaco winds, and the quiet bravery of everyday work and forgiveness.

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Small: What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets whats behind them
Augusto Roa Bastos
"What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them"
Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist
Small: The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because
Augusto Roa Bastos
"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing"
Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist
Small: In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments,
Augusto Roa Bastos
"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"
Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist
Small: Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another
Augusto Roa Bastos
"Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another"
Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist