Javier Marías Quote

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a...

You must be a light unto yourself.

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...