I leave you the best phrases of the truce, novel written by the Uruguayan Mario Benedetti and published in 1960. Its title refers to the help he received from God to find love again, after being widowed.
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-When that loneliness becomes routine, one inexorably loses the ability to feel shaken, to feel alive. -Martín Santomé.
-There is a kind of automatic reflex in talking about death and immediately looking at the clock. -Martín Santomé.
-Then I saw my filthy loneliness, that which was left of me, which was very little. -Martín Santomé.
-I have the horrible feeling that time passes and I do nothing and nothing happens, and nothing moves me to the root. -White.
-I got bored with myself, with my own patience. -Martín Santomé.
-If I ever commit suicide, it will be on Sunday. It is the most discouraging day, the most bland. -Martín Santomé.
-The most horrible variant of loneliness: the loneliness of the one who does not even have himself. -Martín Santomé.
-Of all those hands, his was the only one that transmitted life. -Martín Santomé.
-How I need it. God had been my most important lack. But I need her more than God. -Martín Santomé.
-With Avellaneda, sex is (for me, at least) a less important, less vital ingredient; much more important, more vital, are our conversations, our affinities. -Martín Santomé.
-When we made love, it seemed that each hard bone of mine corresponded with a soft hollow of hers, that each impulse of mine met its echo receptor mathematically. -Martín Santomé.
-Possibly he loved me, who knows, but the truth is that he had a special ability to hurt me. -Laura Avellaneda.
-How many words, just to say I don't want to sound pathetic. -Martín Santomé.
-Ours is that indefinite bond that now unites us. -Martín Santomé.
-There is a man within me who does not want to force events, but there is also another man who thinks obsessively about trouble. -Martín Santomé.
-She shook my hand and I didn't need more. It was enough for me to feel that I was well received. More than kissing her, more than sleeping together, more than anything else, she held my hand and that was love. -Martín Santomé.
-Now I know. I don't love you for your face, or for your years, or for your words, or for your intentions. I love you because you are made of good wood. -Laura Avellaneda.
-So we are, each one on his shore, without hating us, without loving us, others. -Martín Santomé.
-Frankly, I don't know if I believe in God. Sometimes I imagine that if God did exist, this doubt would not upset him. -Martín Santomé.
-I talk to her as if I were talking to myself. -Martín Santomé.
-It should be a general rule that lonely people do not sympathize, or is it that we are simply unfriendly? -Martín Santomé.
-The true division of social classes would have to be done taking into account the time each one gets out of bed. -Martín Santomé.
-It is or it is not, no matter the day. -Martín Santomé.
-People generally end up feeling miserable, simply because they have believed that happiness was a permanent sense of indefinable well-being, blissful ecstasy, perpetual festival. -Martín Santomé.
-Suddenly I was aware that that moment, that that slice of everyday life, was the maximum degree of well-being, it was bliss. -Martín Santomé.
-It's hard for me to be loving, even in love life. I always give less than what I have. My style of loving is that, a bit reluctant, reserving the maximum only for big occasions. -Martín Santomé.
-But, ultimately, what is Lo Nuestro? For now, at least, it is a kind of complicity in front of the others, a shared secret, a unilateral pact. -Martín Santomé.
-The delight in the face of the mystery, the joy in the face of the unexpected, are sensations that sometimes my modest strength cannot bear. -Martín Santomé.
-Look, I can assure you that when a woman is lost, there is always a mean, cretin, denigrating man, who first made her lose faith in herself. -Old trolleybus.
-Time is going. Sometimes I think I would have to go in a hurry, make the most of these remaining years. I have the anguished feeling that life is slipping away from me, as if my veins had opened and I could not stop my blood -Marín Santomé.
-What I like the most about you is something that there will not be time to take away from you. -Laura Avellaneda.
-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. -Martín Santomé.
-Sometimes I feel unhappy, nothing more than not knowing what I am missing. -White.
-It is certain that many of these so-called unfortunates are actually happy, but they do not realize it, they do not admit it, because they believe that they are far from maximum well-being. -Martín Santomé.
-Today was a happy day; just routine. -Martín Santomé.
-One of the most pleasant things in life: watching the sun filter through the leaves. -Martín Santomé.
-Hopefully you feel both protective and protected, which is one of the most pleasant sensations that human beings can afford. -Esteban.
-It is not eternity but it is the instant, which, after all, is its only true substitute. -Martín Santomé.
-Sometimes we did the math. It was never enough. Perhaps we looked too much at numbers, additions, subtractions, and we didn't have time to look at ourselves. -Martín Santomé.
-It is very possible that what I am about to say sounds crazy to you. If so, just tell me. But I don't want to beat around the bush: I think I'm in love with you. -Martín Santomé.
-He had never been so fully happy as he was now, but he had a stinging feeling that he would never be happy again, at least to that degree, with such intensity. -Martín Santomé.
-Possibly he loved me, who knows, but the truth is that he had a special ability to hurt me. -Laura Avellaneda.
-The world also stops at times to contemplate us, with a look that can also be diagnosis and eviction. -Martín Santomé.
-When a woman cries in front of me, I become helpless and also clumsy. I despair, I don't know how to remedy it. -Martín Santomé.
-With you I have no need to live on the defensive. I feel happy. -Laura Avellaneda.
-You have all the conditions to meet my happiness, but I have very few to meet yours. -Martín Santomé.
-While my heart now feels generous, joyful, renewed, without it I would be a definitely aged heart again. -Martín Santomé.
-The plan laid out is absolute freedom. Meet and see what happens, let time run and review. There are no obstacles. There are no compromises. She is splendid. -Martín Santomé.
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