Quote by Javier Marías

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not…

— Javier Marías

“And we offer each other words of consolotation or distraction or encouragement when we see that one or the other of us is in…

— Javier Marías

“The principal and the most common problem at the beginning of any fairly conventional marriage is that regardless of the facilities for disengagement available…

— Javier Marías

“Jedan par, pomislih, koji zavisi i živi od svojih prepreka; jedan par koji će se rasturiti kad ih ne bude bilo, ako ga pre…

— Javier Marías

“I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without…

— Javier Marias

“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.”

— Javier Marías

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

— Javier Marías

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

“Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our…

— Javier Marías

“... los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría de ellas…

— Javier Marías

“When the abuse is mutual, it dissolves of its own accord, the way it does in quarrels between brothers and sister when they are…

— Javier Marías

“Jeg ønsker å være der han er, og det eneste området hvor jeg vet at vi er sammen, er i fortiden, i det som…

— Javier Marías