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Quotes from Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White — Javier Marías

1951–2022 Spain

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Every illness is caused by something which is not an illness.

Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)

According to us, the night belongs to the previous day.

Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)

People 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 that contain the largest measure of madness.

Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)

Real togetherness in married couples and indeed in any couple comes from words, not just the words that are spoken – spoken voluntarily – but the words one doesn't keep to oneself – at least not without the intervention of the will.

Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Javier Marías (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.