“Recounting an event distorts it, recounting facts distorts and twists and almost negates them, everything that one recounts, however true, becomes unreal and approximate, the truth doesn't depend on things actually existing or happening, but on their remaining hidden or… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“And we offer each other words of consolotation or distraction or encouragement when we see that one or the other of us is in… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“The principal and the most common problem at the beginning of any fairly conventional marriage is that regardless of the facilities for disengagement available… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Jedan par, pomislih, koji zavisi i živi od svojih prepreka; jedan par koji će se rasturiti kad ih ne bude bilo, ako ga pre… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“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… — Javier Marias Copy Share Image
“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.” — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“... los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría de ellas… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“When the abuse is mutual, it dissolves of its own accord, the way it does in quarrels between brothers and sister when they are… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Jeg ønsker å være der han er, og det eneste området hvor jeg vet at vi er sammen, er i fortiden, i det som… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
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