Quotes by : Javier Marías

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

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to....

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

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

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

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

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life....

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

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

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