Frases de José Baroja (218 citações) | Citações e frases famosas

Original: Pienso que vivir solo de la escritura es un privilegio, en términos económicos, que solo algunos escritores y escritoras han conseguido y al que, probablemente, todos los autores aspiramos: una meta difícil que no imposible. <br class="br">Fonte: Cazas Fernández, A. (2022). "La escritura le aportó sentido, coherencia e identidad a mi vida". En Correo Gallego. https://www.elcorreogallego.es/el-correo-2/la-escritura-le-aporto-sentido-coherencia-e-identidad-a-mi-vida-AP10794051. Consultado el 16 de junio de 2022.

“Why walk with half measures, animals know much more than people, above all because they feel more freely than most of these and, therefore, as Kafka says, they are possessors of all the knowledge about this life. They are just too humble to show it off.”

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Original: Para qué andar con medias tintas, los animales saben mucho más que las personas, ante todo porque sienten con más libertad que la mayoría de estas y, por ello, como dice Kafka, son poseedores de todo el conocimiento acerca de esta vida. Solo que son muy humildes para hacer gala de ello.
Fonte: Baroja, José. (2020). "Orfeo". En El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos. Lima: Ediquid, ISBN:978-980-7641-67-8; p. 40.

“It is often said that children do not read. Well, I'd say that if adults don't start reading, it's not fair to accuse little ones of not reading. They must see us with a book in our hands.”

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Original source: Mucho se dice que los niños no leen. Bueno, yo diría que si los adultos no comienzan a hacerlo, no es justo acusar a los más pequeños de no leer. Ellos deben vernos con un libro entre las manos. <br class="br">Fonte: Trujillo, E. (2018). "Promover la lectura es una responsabilidad moral de los escritores: José Baroja". En Perú Informa. http://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/#:~:text=Hablar%20del%20escritor%20chileno%20Jos%C3%A9,en%20Letras%2C%20menci%C3%B3n%20en%20Literatura.. Consultado el 17 de junio de 2022.

“For a writer, life must be the focus that death illuminates daily.”

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Fonte: Para un escritor la vida debe ser el foco que la muerte ilumina a diario.
Fonte: Zárate, Y. (2019). "José Baroja". En revista Momentos Ahora o nunca. Número 139. Tlaxcala, México; p. 24.

“…over time he would realize that the higher he was, the less danger he was in and the more he controlled the ever-ready mass.”

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José Baroja livro No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“Mexico is a beautiful country in its tremendous contradictions.”

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Fonte: Revista Momento ahora o nunca, n°139 (2019)

“It's cold, it's always cold in the sanatorium; which leads me to speculate that, maybe, and just maybe, it's not a simple coincidence.”

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José Baroja livro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“When Agatha already felt like she was dying, for a second she thought about turning him into a eunuch for life, in self-defense, she would argue.”

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José Baroja livro El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos

“Among those corporeal glances, in the midst of those libidinous flirtations and those wild impulses, there were no doubts or excess verses, not even a bad song…”

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José Baroja livro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“In the end, the two failed Chilean constituent processes were a marketing exercise to legitimize the constitution of the Dictatorship.”

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Fonte: Interview.

“The result does not matter: politicians never lose.”

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Fonte: Interview.

“Literature is the emotional biography of a human being who has dared to write it.”

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Fonte: Interview. Portal.ucm.cl

“God? Christ. The Virgin. This Guadalajara is so rich in cathedrals, so rich in appearances, that I am sure that these are the true foundations of the city and its misfortune: the rain washes away the sin of this world…”

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José Baroja livro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“If there is such a thing as the eternal return that Nietzsche proposed, I hope to do what is necessary to make it worth repeating every day to infinity.”

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Fonte: Interview. Torreblanca, M. E. Entrevista al escritor José Baroja. Fondo de Cultura Económica. https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706

“That's the writer's game: everything is about us.”

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José Baroja livro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“…the walls of his house were full of images of a happy past, which in his mind seemed like a constant outside of time.”

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José Baroja livro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“Surrendering to state or private financing is bullshit.”

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Fonte: Revista Momento ahora o nunca, n°139 (2019)

“I think that a literary work should not be a piece of spit thrown onto the road.”

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