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Uruguayan journalist, Birth: 14-9-1920, Death: 17-5-2009
1.
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
Mario Benedetti

2.
Perfection is a polished collection of errors.
Mario Benedetti

3.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
Mario Benedetti

4.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
Mario Benedetti

5.
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
Mario Benedetti

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6.
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

7.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
Mario Benedetti

8.
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

Quote Topics by Mario Benedetti: Writing Selfishness Country Born Shoulders Minutes World Dream Symbols Errors Able Worry Book Generosity Latin Miracle Real Body Reading Enough Thinking Collections Life Perfection Luck Weapons Two People Firsts
9.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
Mario Benedetti

10.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
Mario Benedetti

11.
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