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Javier Marias quotes: Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Javier Marias quotes: Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

Javier Marias quotes: Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.

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

Javier Marias quotes: The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.

The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.

Javier Marias quotes: We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Javier Marias quotes: One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Javier Marias quotes: (None of us can ever know for sure who we are going to die with.)

(None of us can ever know for sure who we are going to die with.)

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

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

Javier Marias quotes: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind',

Thus bad begins and worse remains behind',

Javier Marias quotes: The most transient and trivial of infatuations lack any real cause, and that's even truer of feelings that go far deeper, infinitely deeper than that.

The most transient and trivial of infatuations lack any real cause, and that's even truer of feelings that go far deeper, infinitely deeper than that.

Javier Marias quotes: Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.

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

Javier Marias quotes: An odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

An odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

Javier Marias quotes: Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

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

Javier Marias quotes: What remains mysterious, or even enigmatic are those two words "nothing more," "pas davantage" in French.

What remains mysterious, or even enigmatic are those two words "nothing more," "pas davantage" in French.

Javier Marias quotes: Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.

Javier Marias quotes: He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me,

He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me,

Javier Marias quotes: We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.

We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.

Javier Marias quotes: I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.

I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.

Javier Marias quotes: Stubbed it out in the ashtray she had been using before, for her equally

Stubbed it out in the ashtray she had been using before, for her equally