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

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

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

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

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

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

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those w…

- Javier Marías