Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.
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
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
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
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
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass. - Javier Marías
Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an… - Javier Marías
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an…
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