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Marriage Quotes by Javier Marías

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Marriage as a narrative thread weaves through Javier Marías’s prose, where intimacy collides with memory and doubt. His elegant sentences trace the subtle power dynamics of partnership, giving readers a nuanced portrait that captures both the comfort and the inevitable friction of shared lives.

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“The principal and the most common problem at the beginning of any fairly conventional marriage is that regardless of the facilities for…

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People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they…

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“Perhaps it was his wife who mainly made him laugh, for there are people who can make us laugh even when they…

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“Jedan par, pomislih, koji zavisi i živi od svojih prepreka; jedan par koji će se rasturiti kad ih ne bude bilo, ako ga pre…

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“I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without…

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“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.”

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Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

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“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

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“Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our…

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“... los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría de ellas…

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“When the abuse is mutual, it dissolves of its own accord, the way it does in quarrels between brothers and sister when they are…

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“Jeg ønsker å være der han er, og det eneste området hvor jeg vet at vi er sammen, er i fortiden, i det som…

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“I do believe that love is based in large measure on its anticipation and on its recollection. It is the feeling that requires the…

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“... I had stayed still and let the days pass, which is the best way to allow things in the real world to dissolve…

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I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance,…

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