“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
“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
“(nincs annál csábítóbb, mint belefeledkezni egy másik valóságba, még ha a képzelet szüleménye is; magunkévá tenni valaki más problémáit, és elmerülni a… — Javier Marías Mint 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
Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears… — Javier Marías Communication 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“As a young man, he was already rather pompous and full of himself, concerned with what he would write and with his… — Javier Marías Artistic life 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
“We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course… — Javier Marías Delusion 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
“And we offer each other words of consolotation or distraction or encouragement when we see that one or the other of us… — Javier Marías Loss Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was his wife who mainly made him laugh, for there are people who can make us laugh even when they… — Javier Marías Business 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
“IN ALL UNEQUAL relationships, those lacking a name or explicit recognition, there is usually one person who takes the initiative, who phones… — Javier Marías Psychology 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Ő azonban mindig pontosan a tudatában volt, hogy bizonyos véletlenek valószerűtlen találkozása miatt vagyunk itt a Földön, s ez ellen nem lehet… — Javier Marías Mint Copy Share Image
“Seafood poisoning, a cigarette lit as the person is drifting off to sleep and that sets fire to the sheets or, worse,… — Javier Marías Death 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
“It’s true that when we get caught in the spider’s web—between the first chance event and the second—we fantasize endlessly and are,… — Javier Marías Spider 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
“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
“The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of… — Javier Marias Time Copy Share Image
“Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, no tanto a hacer lo que no quiere, sino más bien lo que no… — Javier Marías Amor Copy Share Image
“One should never tell anyone anything or give information or pass on stories or make people remember beings who have never existed… — Javier Marías Nature Copy Share Image
“Nem áhítozhatunk arra, hogy mi legyünk az elsők vagy a legjobbak, el kell fogadnunk azt, ami van: mi vagyunk a maradék, a… — Javier Marías Mint Copy Share Image
