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
“And we offer each other words of consolotation or distraction or encouragement when we see that one or the other of us… — 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… — Javier Marías Marriage 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 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
“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… — Javier Marías Article 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
“... los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría… — 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… — 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 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 Lost love Copy Share Image
“... I had stayed still and let the days pass, which is the best way to allow things in the real world… — Javier Marías Javier-marias 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… — Javier Marías Distance 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Minek ez meg minek az, minek a pénz, az üzlet meg a velejáró tengernyi cselszövés; minek ez a nagy ház meg a… — 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
“(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
“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
