Quotes by : Javier Marías

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly....

For me that's the only way of understanding a particular term that everyone here bandies about quite....

...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's....

The day we didn't spend together, we will never spend together, what someone was going to say to us on....

I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand....

Everything becomes a story and ends up drifting about in the same sphere, and then it's hard to differentiate....

The soldier doesn’t usually act on his own initiative, he doesn’t harbour feelings of hatred or resentment....

When you don’t know what to believe, when you’re not prepared to play the amateur detective, then....

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and....

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an....