Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have l…

- Javier Marías

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

- Javier Marías

The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which…

- Javier Marías

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's alway…

- Javier Marías

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

- Javier Marías

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

- Javier Marías

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it,…

- Javier Marías

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

- Javier Marías

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

- Javier Marías