“Gondolom, hogy neki is szüksége volt ellenségre, akit okolhat a nyomoráért. Ahogy egyébként bárki másnak, a szegényeknek, a középosztálybelieknek, a jómódúaknak és… — Javier Marías 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 Time 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 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
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens. — Javier Marías Happens 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 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
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory,… — Javier Marías Affront 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 Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“I never get involved in anything and I don’t make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.” — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“It's always the chest of the other person we lean back against for support, we only really feel supported or backed up… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Én lehiggadtam, és hagytam telni a napokat; ez a legjobb módja, hogy eloszlassunk vagy szétkergessünk bizonyos dolgokat a valóságban, még ha örökre… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we never know from whom we originally get the ideas and beliefs that shape us, those that make… — Javier Marías Beliefs 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
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an… — Javier Marías Accentuate 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
“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
“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
