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 who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.
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.
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.
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens. - Javier Marías
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.
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
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,…
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