“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
