“What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened in it is of… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“. . .the books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.” — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky does not exist for me. Virginia Woolf does not exist for me. Her essays are quite good, but her novels are… — Javier Marias 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
“I do believe that love is based in large measure on its anticipation and on its recollection. It is the feeling that requires the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“... I had stayed still and let the days pass, which is the best way to allow things in the real world to dissolve… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance,… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
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