Mario Benedetti Quotes

• Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

  Mario Benedetti

  Errors, Perfection, Collections

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

  Mario Benedetti

  Dream, Enough, Minutes

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• Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

  Mario Benedetti

  Generosity, Selfishness

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

  Mario Benedetti

  Miracle, Body, Born

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• After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

  Mario Benedetti

  Life, Symbols

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• An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

  Mario Benedetti

  Writing, People, Weapons

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

  Mario Benedetti

  Worry, Luck, Able

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• 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.

  Mario Benedetti

  Writing, Thinking, World

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

  Mario Benedetti

  Country, Real, Latin

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

  Mario Benedetti

  Reading, Writing, Shoulders

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

  Mario Benedetti

  Book, Two, Firsts

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