Frases de José Baroja

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“… Ele percebe os dois muito mais “caninos” do que antes, digamos, com mais coração, como se um pouco do seu jeito de ser tivesse passado para eles; e eles já eram bons humanos.”

“Em breve os acidentes, os apagões, as hipotermias, as exigências de iluminação pública e muitos delitos esconderão os desaparecimentos, as conspirações, as mortes, a violência doméstica, as corrupções e um longo etc.”

“Depois daquele “amém”, Evaristo descobriu as faces de aprovação e medo de seu público, então sabia que já as tinha em mãos.”

“O medo reaparece todos os dias, enquanto toma banho, enquanto assiste televisão, mesmo quando apenas toma café.”

“Acho que a literatura deveria sacudir, e não se submeter ao governo da época.”

“Juan e Perro no fundo sabem que esses ruídos persistirão enquanto houver injustiça nesta terra investida por aquele pequeno deus dominical que alguns têm.”

“…com o tempo ele perceberia que quanto mais alto ele estava, menos perigo corria e mais controlava a multidão sempre pronta.”

“O pensamento crítico acaba domesticado pelo ruído do partidarismo político e religioso, porque nestas terras duvidar se torna traição e pensar um ato suspeito.”

“The fable is an aesthetic scalpel that opens the social flesh without turning it into a museum object.”

“Truth does not justify gratuitous cruelty.”

“If an anonymous reader finds in a fragment the key to name their own shame or their own tenderness, then the work has fulfilled its most precious social function.”

“Belonging is not a fixed point but a becoming.”

“Sometimes the plot seems like a fissure in the city, at other times like a symptom.”

“So much immorality, so much petty selfishness in using migrants for mere electoral interests.”

“The Chilean far right did not win an election: it won oblivion. And with those who vote against memory, there is no debate—because dialogue begins only where consciousness still remains.”

“Power does not need to impose itself when it manages to pay you for your silence: a punctual paycheck is enough to make obedience seem like common sense.”

“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

“When people stop shuddering at the pain of others, crime no longer needs executioners: consent is enough.”

“The foundation and strength of human evolution lie in empathy.”

“There will remain the trace of Trump and right-wing policies: warped decisions, brutal words, and the habit of treating human dignity as a nuisance.”

“Then will come the excuse of those who supported this New World, saying they did not know, that it was exaggerated, that they were only defending order.”

“And there will remain the uncomfortable memory, the precise recollection of the day when, following Trump and his policies, they accepted the unacceptable without questioning it.”

“In Guadalajara, those who have never waited for a bus under the sun, who have never breathed the heavy air of a public hospital nor reached out to the government for help, raise their hands to decide for you.”

“Critical thinking ends up domesticated by the noise of political and religious partisanship, because in these lands doubting becomes betrayal and thinking a suspicious act.”

“Literature that hurts is often the one that best tells a complex truth.”

“Literature is an act of communion.”

“Frustration and desperation are on the same floor as naivety.”

“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”

“In the face of Donald Trump, the Latin American right chose obedience over dignity.”