Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
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.
Perfection is a polished collection of errors.
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.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.