25 Phrases From The Wonderful Mario Benedetti

The vast and wonderful work that the great poet Mario Benedetti left us is a stairway that leads straight to our dreams. With his words, the Uruguayan writer raises us to a world of awareness and nostalgia that makes us sigh. In this article we leave you 25 of his most beautiful phrases, which are a real balm for our soul.

1. Do not tempt me, because if we try we will not be able to forget.

2. But, after all, what is there between us? For now, at least, a kind of complicity in front of ourselves, a shared secret, a unilateral pact. Of course, it is not an adventure, nor a project nor, least of all, an engagement. However, it is more than just a friendship. The worst (or best?) Is that she feels comfortable with this definition. He speaks to me with complicity, with humor, I believe even with affection.

3. When we thought we had all the answers, suddenly all the questions changed.

4. The butterfly will always remember that it was a caterpillar.

5. After all, death is only a sign that there was life.

6. Only doubts that will hold the key will enter reason.

7. The man of today must be on guard against two dangers: the right when he is right, the left when he is left.

8. Don’t believe what they tell you about the world (not even what I’m telling you), because the world is untold.

9. Who would have thought, the truly weak never give up.

11. I’d like to watch everything from a distance, but with you.

12. Don’t give up, please, don’t give up, not even when the cold gets hot, fear will bite, the sun will hide and the wind will be silent; there is still fire in your soul, there is still life in your dreams . Because life is yours, and your desire, because every day is a new beginning, because this is the best of times, because you are not alone, because I love you!

13. I like people who vibrate, those who should not be pushed, who should not be told to do things, because they already know what to do and do it. People who cultivate their dreams until those dreams take over their reality.

14. I like people who are able to understand that the greatest mistake of human beings is trying to drive out of their heads what they don’t want to know comes out of their heart.

15. We resign ourselves to the unique and happy moment. We prefer to lose it, let it pass without grasping it. We prefer to lose everything, rather than admit that this is our only chance and that that chance lasts only a minute and not a long, flawless existence.

16. I love, you love, he loves, we love, you love, they love. Maybe it wasn’t conjugation, but reality.

17. Five minutes are enough to make us dream for a lifetime, this is the relativity of time.

18. I never thought there was so much sadness in happiness.

19. What a wonderful insomnia if I stay awake on your body.

20. My strategy is that one day, I don’t know how or under what pretext, you will finally need me.

21. Glory does not consist in never falling, but rather in getting up as often as necessary.

22. Love is not repetition. Each act of love is a cycle in itself, a closed orbit in its own rite. It is, how could I explain it, a handful of life.

23. Perfection is a clear collection of errors.

24. If the heart gets tired of loving, what good is it.

25. If only we were aware of what we have as clearly as we are aware of what we lack!