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 hap… - Javier Marías

Nos condenamos siempre por lo que decimos, no por lo que hacemos.

A fool with the mind of a detective is an intelligent fool, a logical fool, the worst kind, because men's logic, far from compensating for their foolishness, only duplicates it, triplicates it, makes it dangerous.

We tend to be incredibly distrustful of our own perceptions once they have passed and find no outside confirmation or ratification, we sometimes renounce our memory and end up telling ourselves inexact versions of what we witnessed, we do not trust ourselves as witnesses.