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Top 15 Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes (2025 Update)

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.”

1. “I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.”

2. “Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “Siempre he pensado que, cuando oscurece, todos necesitamos a alguien.”

3. “Siempre he pensado que, cuando oscurece, todos necesitamos a alguien.”

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Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “No, si ya se sabe. Siempre aparece alguien que no te esperas para nada.”

4. “No, si ya se sabe. Siempre aparece alguien que no te esperas para nada.”

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Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “It’s an honor, indeed I’m glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.”

5. “It’s an honor, indeed I’m glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “La mujeres son como la ayahuasca.”

6. “La mujeres son como la ayahuasca.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “Temas: Los de siempre. El pasado ya inalterable, el presente fugitivo, el inexistente futuro.”

7. “Temas: Los de siempre. El pasado ya inalterable, el presente fugitivo, el inexistente futuro.”

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Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “No queda otra cosa que una gran masa analfabeta creada deliberadamente por el Poder, una especie de muchedumbre amorfa que nos ha hundido a todos en una mediocridad general.”

8. “No queda otra cosa que una gran masa analfabeta creada deliberadamente por el Poder, una especie de muchedumbre amorfa que nos ha hundido a todos en una mediocridad general.”

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Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “I remember always thinking that life itself doesn’t actually exist, because if no one tells it as a story or turns it into a narrative, life is merely something that happens, nothing more. To understand life, you have to tell it, even if only to yourself. This doesn’t mean that a story can make life comprehensible, because there are always gaps in any narrative, whatever sutures or remedies you might try to apply. That is why a narrative only restores life in fragmentary form.”

9. “I remember always thinking that life itself doesn’t actually exist, because if no one tells it as a story or turns it into a narrative, life is merely something that happens, nothing more. To understand life, you have to tell it, even if only to yourself. This doesn’t mean that a story can make life comprehensible, because there are always gaps in any narrative, whatever sutures or remedies you might try to apply. That is why a narrative only restores life in fragmentary form.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “To miniaturize is also to conceal.”

10. “To miniaturize is also to conceal.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.”

11. “I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.”

12. “Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “Miedo al miedo.”

13. “Miedo al miedo.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?”

14. “After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room”.”

15. “He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room”.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “He begins collecting books as well as passions, he knows that the hunt for books, like sexual pursuit, enriches the geography of pleasure.”

16. “He begins collecting books as well as passions, he knows that the hunt for books, like sexual pursuit, enriches the geography of pleasure.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas Quote: “We, all of us, wish to rescue, via memory, each fragment of life that suddenly comes back to us, however unworthy, however painful it may be. And the only way to do this is to set it down in writing.”

17. “We, all of us, wish to rescue, via memory, each fragment of life that suddenly comes back to us, however unworthy, however painful it may be. And the only way to do this is to set it down in writing.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas

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