Javier MaríasWe all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is t… ▶374HumanityLifeThought
Javier MaríasWe lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.293Truth
Javier MaríasNot to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.305Time
Javier MaríasLife is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous. ✨ Javier Marías, The Art of Fiction No. 190. Interview with Sarah Fay in The Paris Review, Issue 179, www.th… ▶294LifeReading
Javier MaríasI have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I … ▶254Humanity
Javier MaríasOne of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.164Death
Javier MaríasListening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively clo… ▶144Politics
Javier MaríasThe truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words … ▶159LoveTruth
Javier MaríasPeople only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things… ▶159HumanityLove
