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Javier Marías Quotes: We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.
         

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.


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We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.
         



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We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.



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