Your Face Tomorrow, 1: Fever and Spear

"It's shocking how easily we replace the people we lose in our lives, how we rush to cover any vacancies, how we can never resign ourselves to any reduction in the cast of characters without whom we can barely go on or survive, and how, at the same time, we all offer ourselves up to fill vicariously the empty places assigned to us, because we understand and partake of that continuous universal mechanism of substitution, which affects everyone and therefore us too, and so we accept our role as poor imitations and find ourselves surrounded by more and more of them."


Javier Marias

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Another one of them brilliant writers. Galing magsulat! Hay. I can't wait to read his books. Thanks to Marco for sharing this.