I leave you the best phrases of La trugua, a 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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Mario Benedetti, author of La trugua. Source: Wikimedia Commons -Elisa Cabot, via Wikimedia Commons -Why do the palms of my hand have a more faithful memory than my memory? -Martín Santomé.
-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 looking at the clock right away. -Martín Santomé.
-Then I saw my filthy loneliness, that which had remained 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 was mathematically with its receiving echo. -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 inside 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 she 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.
-That's how 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 exists, he would not be upset by this doubt. -Martín Santomé.
-I talk to her as if I were talking to myself. -Martín Santomé.
-It should be a general rule that we lonely people do not sympathize. Or is it that we are simply unfriendly? -Martín Santomé.
- The true division of the social classes would have to be done taking into account the hour in which each one gets out of bed. -Martín Santomé.
-It is or is not, no matter the day. -Martín Santomé.
-People usually end up feeling unhappy, just because they believed that happiness was a permanent feeling of indefinable well-being, of blissful ecstasy, of 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 happiness. -Martín Santomé.
-I find it hard to be affectionate, even in love life. I always give less than what I have. My style of love is that, a bit reticent, 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 forces 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 that 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 most about you is something that there will not be time to take away from you. -Laura Avellaneda.
-The assurance of knowing that I am 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 those alleged 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.
-I hope you feel both protective and protected, which is one of the most pleasant sensations that human beings can afford. -Stephen.
-It is not eternity but it is the moment, which, after all, is its only true substitute. -Martín Santomé.
-Sometimes we did accounts. 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 going to say to him seems crazy to him. If so, just tell me. But I don't mean to beat around the bush: I think I'm in love with you. -Martín Santomé.
He had never been so completely happy as at that moment, but he had the hurtful feeling that he would never be so again, at least to that degree, with that 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 defenseless 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.
-Although my heart now feels generous, happy, renewed, without it it would be a definitely aged heart. -Martín Santomé.
-The plan drawn up 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.