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“What kind of society is capable of making spectacle a priority while justice remains an unfulfilled promise?”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Común Magazine.
https://revistacomun.com/blog/cuando-el-mundial-dejo-de-representar-al-mundo/

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“Governments celebrate statistics; families search for the disappeared.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Común Magazine.
https://revistacomun.com/blog/cuando-el-mundial-dejo-de-representar-al-mundo/

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“Silence has become omnipresent and seemingly infinite for many miles, even longer than your mind can remember.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“Such was his desire that when he mentioned that El Lazarillo was the work of an anonymous author, all he could imagine was how much he would now wish to become that absolute ANON.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“I believe that academics do not flow naturally with this world, since, many times, the Academy, from those all-knowing egos, which are not lacking, turns the literary into a mere object lacking spirit.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Fuente: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/academico-la-ucm-presento-segunda-antologia-hijo-perra-otros-cuentos

“Without money there is no lasting imagination in this city!”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“He cannot stop imagining his bloody hands or himself lying mortally at the bottom of that bathtub, which, for now, serves as his refuge, as his escape from the World, from that which is outside, but which, Any day now, I could decide to go in.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html

““Godín”, is said in Mexico of the office worker from nine to eighteen hours or of any other employee to whom his immediate boss says, during his first day of work and with all the naturalness in the world: “Welcome. From today, your body and soul belong to us.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“If there is any treasure that will last until we die, it is love, care, sincerity, acceptance, kindness, friendship, integrity, wisdom and the memories we leave in the hearts of others.”

“Learn to love yourself a 100% by reconnecting back to Mother Nature. The reason why there is so much chaos going on is because we have disrespected our mother. What's happened now is that we are killing the one who is giving us life. We have to realize the greatness of nature. Bob Marley tried to warn you to see that in this concrete jungle, many of us are living in reverse. When you live in reverse L-I-V-E, it becomes evil…E-V-I-L. We have to see that just by letting go, it frees you…it does wonders.”

“If the ultimate truth is that we are all one, because we are all made of the same conscious energy, there is no difference between loving yourself and loving something else, at the end of the day, every form of love is self-love.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Atheism is a natural result of intellectual honesty.”

Paulo Bitencourt (1966)

Source: Book “Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker”

“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made”

Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany

Gesetze sind wie Würste, man sollte besser nicht dabei sein, wenn sie gemacht werden <br class="br">Though similar remarks are often attributed to Bismarck, this is the earliest known quote regarding laws and sausages, and is attributed to John Godfrey Saxe University Chronicle. University of Michigan (27 March 1869) books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=cEHiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA164 and "Quote... Misquote" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/magazine/27wwwl-guestsafire-t.html by Fred R. Shapiro in The New York Times (21 July 2008); according to Shapiro's research, such remarks only began to be attributed to Bismarck in the 1930s. <br class="br">Variants often attributed to Bismarck: <br class="br">If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. <br class="br">Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made. <br class="br">Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made. <br class="br">Laws are like sausages. You should never see them made. <br class="br">Laws are like sausages. You should never watch them being made. <br class="br">Law and sausage are two things you do not want to see being made. <br class="br">No one should see how laws or sausages are made. <br class="br">To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. <br class="br">The making of laws like the making of sausages, is not a pretty sight. <br class="br">Je weniger die Leute darüber wissen, wie Würste und Gesetze gemacht werden, desto besser schlafen sie nachts. <br class="br">The less the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night. <br class="br">No citation exists for where this German phrase or this translation originated. <br class="br">Misattributed

Ozzy Osbourne quote: “Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!”

“Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

“Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Book V. <br class="br"> Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857) <br class="br">Variant: Whoso loves<br>Believes the impossible.

“There are two sides to every story and the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.”

Paul J. Alessi (1968) Actor / Producer

Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/10696117836382928/

“Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer