“No vi razon para no decirle la verdad, y sin embargo tuve la sensacion de no hacerlo al hacerlo.” — Javier Marías Amor 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 Book Copy Share Image
“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.” — Javier Marías Telling Copy Share Image
It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know… — Javier Marías Able Copy Share Image
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they… — Javier Marías Bears Copy Share Image
“He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that… — Javier Marías Idioms Copy Share Image
“Furcsa kor ez a miénk" – gondoltam. "Most mindenről lehet beszélni, és mindenkit meg kell hallgatni, akármit is tett; és nem csak… — Javier Marías Mint 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… — Javier Marías Article 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… — Javier Marías Brotherhood 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… — Javier Marías Gang Copy Share Image
“... los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría… — Javier Marías Amor Copy Share Image
“He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious… — Javier Marias 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… — Javier Marías Toga Copy Share Image
“Abba a hibába esünk, hogy azt hisszük, a jelen örökké tart, s az egyes pillanatok meghatározóak, márpedig tudnunk kellene, hogy ez nem… — Javier Marías Mint Copy Share Image
The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and… — Javier Marías Remains 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… — Javier Marias Culture Copy Share Image
“Pensaba tanto por entonces que llegué a estar harto de mí mismo. Era, además, un pensamiento irreflexivo, no guiado, fluctuante, sin meta… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“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 Books Copy Share Image
“she barely moved and was, of course, concerned only with her own beautification and cleanliness. She dozed or was, at any rate,… — Javier Marías Eyes Closed 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… — Javier Marías Abnegation Copy Share Image
“You don't even have to move for everything to become horribly complicated, for things to happen, for there to be anger and… — Javier Marías Anger Copy Share Image
“Our lives are often a continuous betrayal and denial of what came before, we twist and distort everything as time passes, and… — Javier Marías Betrayal Copy Share Image
“The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer… — Javier Marías Bad thing Copy Share Image
“The day we didn't spend together, we will never spend together, what someone was going to say to us on the phone… — Javier Marías Courage Copy Share Image
“She did not want to be moved or bothered or distracted ('No, don't do anything yet, don't do anything, just wait'), nor… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“We cannot know what time will do to us with its fine, indistinguishable layers upon layers, we cannot know what it might… — Javier Marías Age 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… — Javier Marías Imagination Copy Share Image
“Recounting an event distorts it, recounting facts distorts and twists and almost negates them, everything that one recounts, however true, becomes unreal… — Javier Marías Life Copy Share Image
“What happened between us both happened and didn't happen, it's the same with everything, why do or not do something, why say… — Javier Marías Regret 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… — Javier Marías Listening Copy Share Image
“A világ olyannyira az élőké, és valójában oly kevéssé a holtaké, hogy az élők – miután ők maradnak a földön, sőt egyre… — Javier Marías Mint Copy Share Image
“They had to pretend because our high-ranking politician knew not a word of English (well, when he said goodbye he did risk… — Javier Marias Good luck Copy Share Image
“For me that's the only way of understanding a particular term that everyone here bandies about quite happily, but which clearly can't… — Javier Marías Affection Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I have the feeling that what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to… — Javier Marías Choices Copy Share Image
“Cromer-Blake has always introduced Dayanand, the Indian doctor, as a great friend which, of course, equips him -- indeed is the ideal… — Javier Marías Friendship Copy Share Image
“Era solamente un animo adulatore, di quelli che non sopportano di essere antipatici a qualcuno, neppure a quelli che detestano, aspirano a… — Javier Marías Adulation Copy Share Image
One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but… — Javier Marías Ghost Copy Share Image
“The certainty that someone will never come back," the narrator muses of the dead, "never speak again, never take another step…will never… — Javier Marías Doubt Copy Share Image
“(nincs annál csábítóbb, mint belefeledkezni egy másik valóságba, még ha a képzelet szüleménye is; magunkévá tenni valaki más problémáit, és elmerülni a… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
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