Mario Benedetti Quotes

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores

Hay menos tiempo que lugar, no obstante, hay lugares que duran un minuto y para cierto tiempo no ha lugar.

In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.