“... los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría… — Javier Marías Amor 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 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
The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and… — Javier Marías 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
“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 Pretentious 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
“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 Resentment 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
“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 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate… — 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 Heart 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 bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer… — Javier Marías 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
“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
“I do believe that love is based in large measure on its anticipation and on its recollection. It is the feeling that… — Javier Marías Imagination 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
“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
“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
“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
We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live… — 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
“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 Couples 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
“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