Felipe González favourite quotes | Quotes of famous people

“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

“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.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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.
Source: Baroja, José. (2020). "Orfeo". En El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos. Lima: Ediquid, ISBN:978-980-7641-67-8; p. 40.

“I think that living only from writing is a privilege, in economic terms, that only some writers have achieved and to which, probably, all authors aspire: a difficult goal that is not impossible.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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.
Source: 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.

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

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“Irony without co-responsibility is mere ornament; with co-responsibility, it is a critical instrument.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“The fantastic is both protection and an analytical tool.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“The right side of history is with Palestine.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“Fiction is far more accurate than History when it comes to the human being.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“Portraying poverty or violence as a photogenic landscape is a betrayal.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“The economy is a silent co-author.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: La Otra Historia. Radiorama de Occidente. 1480AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“Truth does not justify gratuitous cruelty.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“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.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“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.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM Rock&Pop.