Quotes by : Javier Marías

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

We cannot know what time will do to us with its fine, indistinguishable layers upon layers, we cannot....

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

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....

Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to....

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter....

Sometimes I have the feeling that what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss....

We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the....

Unlikely truths are useful and life is full of them, far more than the very worst of novels, no novel....