Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.
Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass. - Javier Marías
- 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
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.
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…
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.
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…
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous. - Javier Marías
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
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…
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,…
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
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…
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