“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 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
“He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that… — Javier Marías 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
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
“A világ olyannyira az élőké, és valójában oly kevéssé a holtaké, hogy az élők – miután ők maradnak a földön, sőt egyre… — Javier Marías 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 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 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
“No vi razon para no decirle la verdad, y sin embargo tuve la sensacion de no hacerlo al hacerlo.” — 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
“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 Javier-marias 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 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
“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
“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
“. . .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
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
“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
“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
“Mindegy mi történik a regényekben, mert úgyis elfelejtjük, ha véget érnek. A lehetőségek és a gondolatok számítanak, amelyekre felnyitják a szemünket, és… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as… — Javier Marías Boredom 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
“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
