“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.” — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“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
“I never get involved in anything and I don’t make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.” — Javier Marías Enemies 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at… — Javier Marías 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 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
“... I had stayed still and let the days pass, which is the best way to allow things in the real world… — Javier Marías 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens. — Javier Marías 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
It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know… — 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
“Pensaba tanto por entonces que llegué a estar harto de mí mismo. Era, además, un pensamiento irreflexivo, no guiado, fluctuante, sin meta… — Javier Marías Amor 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
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at… — Javier Marías 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
