José Baroja: Quotes about life

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

“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.”

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

“If this were a story, we could affirm that it was a stereotype of an old lady, within a space that had lost its daily life around the corner.”

“Already in his old age, at seventy-five years old, after being seriously hospitalized for a severe heart attack, Javier Pérez would remember that only once in his entire existence had he believed he understood what life was.”

“In the end, it's just everyday life and forgetting, because there's nothing fantastic about people having to die every day.”

“Urban life becomes a space where beauty and decay, crowd and solitude, justice and injustice coexist.”

“His life had been a sum of half-hearted decisions.”

“Today, going to schools is essential, since, just as doctors have a duty to protect life, writers must spread literature, because literature is in itself, along with art in general, the greatest form of freedom we still have.”