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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/we-all-have-to-lead-our-own-life-and-we-only-have-the-one-life-and/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/we-all-have-to-lead-our-own-life-and-we-only-have-the-one-life-and/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“And we offer each other words of consolotation or distraction or encouragement when we see that one or the other of us is in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/and-we-offer-each-other-words-of-consolotation-or-distraction-or/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“The principal and the most common problem at the beginning of any fairly conventional marriage is that regardless of the facilities for disengagement available…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/the-principal-and-the-most-common-problem-at-the-beginning-of-any/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“Jedan par, pomislih, koji zavisi i živi od svojih prepreka; jedan par koji će se rasturiti kad ih ne bude bilo, ako ga pre…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/jedan-par-pomislih-koji-zavisi-i-ivi-od-svojih-prepreka-jedan-par/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/i-knew-that-sundays-in-england-aren-t-just-ordinary-dull-sundays-the/)

[Javier Marias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/everything-can-be-ridiculous-or-tragic-according-to-who-is-doing-the/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/life-is-a-very-bad-novelist-it-is-chaotic-and-ludicrous/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/writing-novels-allows-the-novelist-to-spend-much-of-his-time-in-a/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/everything-that-happens-to-us-everything-that-we-say-or-hear/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“... los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría de ellas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/los-planes-que-uno-se-traza-no-son-m-s-que-tentativas-y-pruebas/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“When the abuse is mutual, it dissolves of its own accord, the way it does in quarrels between brothers and sister when they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/when-the-abuse-is-mutual-it-dissolves-of-its-own-accord-the-way-it/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“Jeg ønsker å være der han er, og det eneste området hvor jeg vet at vi er sammen, er i fortiden, i det som…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/jeg-nsker-v-re-der-han-er-og-det-eneste-omr-det-hvor-jeg-vet-at-vi-er/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“I do believe that love is based in large measure on its anticipation and on its recollection. It is the feeling that requires the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/i-do-believe-that-love-is-based-in-large-measure-on-its-anticipation/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [“... I had stayed still and let the days pass, which is the best way to allow things in the real world to dissolve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/i-had-stayed-still-and-let-the-days-pass-which-is-the-best-way-to/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

> [I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/i-have-a-tendency-to-want-to-understand-everything-people-say-and/)

[Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/)

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