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 always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.
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…
- 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.
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.
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.
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…
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous. - Javier Marías
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one o… - Javier Marías
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one o…
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.
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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