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

Javier Marías / Novelist
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Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

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

Javier Marías Novelist

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

Javier Marías Novelist

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 Marías Novelist

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 Marías Novelist

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Chinua Achebe Novelist

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

Michele Bachmann United States Representative

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Abraham Joshua Heschel Rabbi

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

Aristotle Philosopher

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Boris Pasternak Poet

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton Writer

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