José Baroja: Frases en inglés

“Conditioned like sheep in a flock, they have only managed to say “beee”, which translated into martial language would be “Yes, sir.””

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

“That work pride, that ridiculous work pride has put an end to his illusions, with those few illusions that he still had since at school they promised him a magnificent future just for entering university.”

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

“Soon the crashes, the blackouts, the hypothermias, the demands for public lighting and a lot of misdeeds will hide the disappearances, the plots, the deaths, the domestic violence, the corruptions and a long etcetera…”

José Baroja libro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“No, they never expected or sensed the wishes of that omniscient narrator who, at times, wondered, accompanied by a glass of cabernet, about how his story should be constructed, how this story should develop.”

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

“…the literary feeds on that fragility of life.”

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

“Then, Evaristo felt in his hands the exercise of the power that Foucault spoke so much about, and he felt it like someone who discovers fear in his fellow men.”

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

“Waking up, at forty years old, had become somewhat difficult, not only that morning, but since he was thirty.”

José Baroja libro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“That apartment was everything those two lovers needed, locked up by their own will in a space and time, paradoxically, of absolute freedom.”

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

“They never noticed the one who, silently, sustained this story, chose the future, set the guidelines for their memories and desires.”

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

“For the reader, perhaps, this situation will be sadly familiar: witnessing, discovering in these lines, how in a matter of years, what was an eternal oath, had become something so fragile, so disposable, so insignificant.”

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

“He remained frozen for a few minutes, while urine fell from a limb dwarfed by the fear caused by the sensation of near death.”

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

“I'll go out on a limb and say that that glow arose from his past.”

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

“The closest thing to purgatory is a government agency, only the first does not exist and the second is very real.”

José Baroja libro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”

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“This is how, without the consent of the two lovers, of its two main characters, of the only ones who were originally worth anything in this short story, the narrator decided to incorporate two more words into the plot: “doubt” and “uncertainty.””

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

“After that “amen,” Evaristo discovered the faces of approval and fear of his audience, so he knew that he already had them in his hands.”

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

“She, perhaps, with a consciousness that many of us in adulthood lack or simply lost, would associate that so much water falling on our fat and heavy heads was due to the crying of some poet who was walking by.”

José Baroja libro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“How to be sure that nothing will happen, when you don't always need a reason to become one of those cursed and deceptive beings, those entities thrown from the cradle of God.”

José Baroja libro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“It's been years, months, days, but he still can't get out of his mind those horrible, inhuman images, monstrous creations of subjects who look the same as everyone else; equal to him.”

José Baroja libro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos