I leave you the best short phrases by Mario Benedetti about love, friendship, not giving up and much more. They are thoughts, reflections and words from his best books. Mario Benedetti was aUruguayan poet born in 1920 and died in 2009. His work encompasses the narrative, poetic, dramatic genre and he also wrote essays.
Among his best known publications are: Love, women and life, The truce, Living on purpose, Biography to find myself and Life stories (audio book).
Benedetti was born in Paso de los Toros. He completed six years of primary school at the Deutsche Schule in Montevideo, where he also learned German, which allowed him to be Kafka's first translator in Uruguay..
For two years he studied at the Liceo Miranda, but for the rest of his high school years he did not attend an educational institution. In those years he learned shorthand, which was his livelihood for a long time.
At the age of 14 he began to work, first as a stenographer and then as a salesman, public official, accountant, journalist, broadcaster and translator. Between 1938 and 1941 he lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1946 he married Luz López Alegre.
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-It's nice to know that you exist.
-For someone to make you feel things without putting a finger on you, that's admirable.
-Who would say, the weak never really give up.
-Perfection is a polished bug fix.
-Feelings are innocent like bladed weapons.
-There are few things as deafening as silence.
-After all, death is only a symptom of life.
-I hope the wait doesn't wear out my dreams.
-A pessimist is just a well-informed optimist.
-It's almost law, eternal loves are the shortest.
-The butterfly will remember forever that it was a worm.
-Your eyes are my spell against the bad day.
-Ours is that indefinite bond that now unites us.
-It's almost time for me to start dedicating my insomnia to you.
-I'm always in a bad temper. I do not know. Like I'm uncomfortable with myself.
-The true division of social classes would have to be done taking into account the time each one gets out of bed..
-Every time you fall in love, do not explain anything to anyone, let love invade you without going into details.
-The new man must beware of two dangers: to the right when he is right-handed and to the left when he is left-handed..
-We are born sad and we die sad but at halftime we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
-Five minutes is enough to live a lifetime, that's how relative time is.
-I believe that life is a parenthesis between two nothing. I am an atheist. I believe in a personal god, which is consciousness, and that to which we have to be accountable every day.
-One of the most pleasant things in life: watching the sun filter through the leaves.
-Uncertainty is a daisy whose petals never finish defoliating.
-A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand armed men.
-The security of knowing that I was capable of doing something better, put procrastination in my hands, which in the end is a terrible and suicidal weapon.
-Do not believe what they tell you about the world, I already told you that the world is uncountable.
-If I ever commit suicide, it will be on Sunday. It's the most discouraging day, the most bland.
-I don't know your name, I only know the look with which you tell me.
-The world and I really love you, but I always a little more than the world.
-When I have worries, fears or a love story, I am lucky to be able to transform it into a poem.
-Some things from the past disappeared but others open a gap to the future and are what I want to rescue.
-Her lips were a necessary caress, how could she have lived without them until now.
-You do not have to promise anything because promises are horrible ties, and when you feel tied, you tend to free yourself, that is fatal.
-I also feel a slight resentment in front of what is corny, and to me corny seems to be just that: always walking with my heart in my hand.
-I never thought that happiness had so much sadness.
-There is less time than place, however, there are places that last a minute and for a certain time there is no place.
-Because you always exist wherever, but you exist better where I want you.
-In certain oasis, the desert is just a mirage.
-We all need an accomplice sometime, someone to help us use our hearts.
-I like the wind, I don't know why, but when I walk against the wind it seems to erase things. I mean: things I want to erase.
-You hear someone's footsteps that never come.
-I have the horrible feeling that time passes and I do nothing and nothing happens, and nothing moves me to the root.
-Love is a word, a little piece of utopia.
-You do not know how I value your simple courage to love me.
-In this world so encoded with the internet and other navigations, I still prefer the old artisan kiss that has always communicated so much.
-What you really want is what is made for you; then you have to take it, or try. In that life you can go, but it is a much better life.
-Do not tempt me, that if we are tempted we will not be able to forget.
-So we are, each one on his shore, without hating us, without loving us, strangers.
-What I like most about you is something that there will not be time to take away from you.
-Few things are as deafening as silence.
-There are three kinds of people here: those who kill themselves while working, those who should work, and those who should kill themselves..
-I do not know why, but today I have missed you, for missing your presence. Someone told me that oblivion is full of memory.
-Reality is a bundle of problems on which no one claims copyright.
-It is clear that the best thing is not the caress itself, but its continuation.
-More than his eyes, his gaze. I looked like wanting to say something and not saying it.
-More than kissing her, more than sleeping together, more than anything else, she held my hand and that was love.
-A confession: loneliness has stopped hurting me.
-She didn't say anything. She liked him saying things to her, but she was silent. Only her hands and her eyes spoke and that was enough.
-I have left you thinking about many things, but I hope you think about me a little.
-I like people capable of understanding that the greatest human error is trying to get out of the head what comes from the heart.
-When we thought we had all the answers suddenly all the questions changed.
-If the heart gets tired of seeing, what good is it?
-I know I'm going to love you without questions, I know I'm going to love you without answers.
-The one who cheats is because he does not have the courage to be honest.
-The truth is that I did not know that I had those reserves of tenderness in me.
-In reality, there is only the direction we take, what may have been is no longer valid.
-They said goodbye and in the goodbye there was already the welcome.
-Sometimes I feel unhappy for no reason.
-We are sadness, that's why joy is a feat.
-When hatreds are on the loose, one loves in self-defense.
-Defend joy as a trench, defend it from scandal and routine, from misery and the miserable, from temporary and permanent absences.
-You can come to complain about how you are. even though it is not you anymore.
-I wait for you when the night turns to day, sighs of hope already lost. I don't think you're coming, I know.
-However I still doubt this good luck, because heaven to have you seems fantasy to me.
-Asking for forgiveness is humiliating and doesn't fix anything. The solution is not to apologize, but to avoid the outbursts that make excuses mandatory.
-If you knew what you have as clearly as you know what you lack.
-And to be totally, completely, absolutely in love, one must be fully aware that one is also loved, that one also inspires love..
-Maybe that has brought us together. Perhaps it united not the most appropriate word. I mean the relentless hatred that each of us feels for our own face.
-Of all those hands, his was the only one that transmitted life to me.
-Melancholy: romantic way of being sad.
-We all want what cannot be, we are fans of the forbidden.
-I wait for you when we look at the sky at night: you there, me here.
-I do not know if God exists, but if He exists, I know that my doubt will not bother him.
-A river of sadness runs through my veins, but I've forgotten to cry.
-It's funny how sometimes you can be so innocently cruel.
-Let it be clear to you. Where your mouth ends, there mine begins.
-I love, you love, he loves, we love, you love, they love. I wish it were not conjugation but reality.
-I would like to look at everything from afar but with you.
-I would like to be me, but a little better.
-Against optimism there are no vaccines.
-Death takes away everything that was not, but we keep what we had.
-If I live in your memory I will not be alone.
-Every night I torture myself thinking of you.
-My dear, our marriage was not a failure, but something much more horrible: a wasted success..
-When hell is others, paradise is not oneself.
-The plan laid out is absolute freedom. Get to know each other and see what happens, let time run and review. There are no obstacles. No compromises.
-Notice that when he smiles, quotation marks form at each end of his mouth. That, her mouth, is my date.
-Every time you fall in love, do not explain anything to anyone, let love invade you without going into details.
-And although I have not always understood my faults and my failures, instead I know that in your arms the world makes sense.
-Possibly he loved me, who knows, but the truth is that he had a special ability to hurt me.
-They explained that it was a cordial invitation to leave immediately..
-I need not to fall into the remote risk of needing you.
-Suddenly we feel prisoners of a circumstance that we did not seek, but rather sought us out..
-Sighs of hopes already lost.
-That happiness with all its capital letters does not exist. Ah! But if they were in lowercase it would be so similar to what our pre-loneliness has been.
-After joy comes loneliness, after fullness comes loneliness, after love comes loneliness. I know that it is a poor deformation, but the truth is that in that minute one feels alone in the world, without handles, without excuses, without hugs, without grudges. Without the things that unite or separate. And in that single way of being alone, not even one takes pity on oneself.
-There are ten centimeters of silence between your hands and my hands, a border of unspoken words between your lips and my lips. And something that shines so sad between your eyes and my eyes.
-For me the genre that matters most to me of what I write is poetry, then the short story and then the essay. Finally the novel. Although it may be the most money I have earned.
-My father and mother, although they never divorced, they always got on very badly; for a child it is always something traumatizing, my way of writing has a lot to do with it.
-It was very important from my point of view the moral attitude of my father, who due to an excess of honesty preferred to assume all his debts instead of declaring bankruptcy.
-Artigas is one of the most progressive figures in America, three years before Marx was born, he had already written the first agrarian reform.
-In Uruguay we depended on distant deaths, on those peoples who depended on our meat and our wool. All this led to a self-conviction, and a hypocritical conviction that everything was over..
-Office life gave me many topics, I would be badly grateful if I did not say that; but I got bored of that life and went back to journalism.
-Loneliness never comes alone, if you look over the withered shoulder of our loneliness, you will see a long and compact impossible; a simple respect for third or fourth; that mishap of being good people.
-People told me that I was very lucky to have had success with the first book "Poems of the Office" and I told them no, that this was the eighth, but of the other seven no one had found out.
-The poets at that time wrote about flowers and gazelles and even a fauna that did not even exist in the place. The poets did not sell anything, the public showed no interest in that generation.
-The painters that I never liked in the reproductions I liked in the original paintings. Visiting museums was one of the things that mattered most to me in my travels.
-"Round trip" seeing it in retrospect was a bad work, it had prizes and others but I am not satisfied with its success and, I think that its political position was very badly raised.
-What converted me to anti-imperialism was my visit to the United States. Discrimination with respect to blacks, Puerto Ricans and Czechs. It was something that moved me a lot.
-My first trip to the United States made me realize the North American influence we were having in the country. This is where this book was born: La Pell de Brau.
-"Suicides are shy killers", I have always liked that phrase and will always love it.
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