One should never tell anyone anything or give information or pass on stories people remember beings who have never existed or trodden the earth or traversed the world, or who, having done so, are now almost safe in uncertain, one-eyed oblivion.
Copyright Javier Marias 2002
English Translation Margaret Jull Costa 2005
Originally published with the title Tu rostro mañana (1 Fiebre y lanza) by Alfaguara, Spain, 2002.
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