José Baroja: Likeness

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

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

“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.”

“Suddenly, as the sun rose, the poem flew without an owner, while he faded away like a fiction called a “story.””

“The person on foot realizes that there is no misery in cities like Madrid or Barcelona, ​​first world cities that, I think, have lost the heart that Latin Americans still have.”

“…resignation is like the rain in Mexico City, sometimes sad, arbitrary and inopportune.”

“The resignation it looks like rain and that explains why the rain can bring resignation.”

“In democracy, wishing bad for an incoming government is like buying a gun, buying the bullets, loading it and wishing to be killed with it: sovereign dogmatic stupidity.”

“I never feel like a text is completely finished. Over and over again I reread it, preferably out loud, until a certain tiredness leads me to send it to the editor, who will decide whether it is published or not.”

“…sometimes I feel like I betray the writer when I try to teach literature.”

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“When politicians take over public transportation, public health, public education—that is, live like ordinary people and not like rich people—everything will be better.”

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