“What is truly unbearable is that the person one recalls as part of the future should suddenly become the past.”

— Javier Marías

Lo más intolerable es que se convierta en pasado quien uno recuerda como futuro.
Source: Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí [Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me] (1994), p. 126

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