Javier Marías (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022) was a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist. He is one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, and his work has been translated into 42 languages.
Un imbécil detectivesco es un imbécil listo, un imbécil lógico, los peores, porque la lógica de los hombres, en vez de compensar su imbecilidad, la duplica y la triplica y la hace ofensiva.
The person recounting here and now what he saw and what happened to him then is not the same person who saw those things and to whom those things happened.
El que aquí cuenta lo que vio y le ocurrió no es aquel que lo vio y al que le ocurrió.
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.