Quotes from Antonio Di Benedetto

I understood that she was more candor & despair than woman. She had refused to be flesh & triumphed. She was freer than I.

Y yo la miro y siento que amo a la gente triste y silenciosa.

Comenzaba la tarde, pero tanto mal me había dado aquel día que me espantaba continuarlo. Sin embargo, no se puede renunciar a vivir medio día: o el resto de la eternidad o nada.

But I had done for them what no one had ever tried to do for me. To say, to their hopes: No.

I asked myself not why I was alive but why I had lived. Out of expectation, I supposed, and wondered whether I still expected anything. It seemed I did. Something more is always expected.

Por qué?- Quiso saber- -¿Y por qué no?- repliqué"- El relato se detiene, hay un espacio en blanco. Se suspende oportunamente: la última frase es magnética, me ha retenido. En efecto, la cuestión no es por que me mataré, sino por qué no matarme.

But a man cannot renounce his life for half a day: There is either the rest of eternity or nothing.

The sun burned white, conjugating its colorlessness, it's fixed, blazing surface, against sand so blank that it induced visions.

The sun was a dog with a hot, dry tongue that licked and licked me until it woke me up.

Estoy entrgado a la nada. I am delivered up to nothingness.

There remained the fear of dreams, which are incontrollable.

A dead monkey, still whole, still undecomposed, drifted back and forth with a certain precision upon those ripples and eddies without exit. . . . There we were: Ready to go and not going.

In the end it had all been too simple, too easy. But I feared my good fortune.

Maybe everything depends . . . on where you're born, and the inadequacy of the destiny that follows from that.

Can't a man blaze up in anger & make a mistake, then repent & be pardoned?

Me pregunté, no por qué vivía, sino por qué había vivido. Supuse que por la espera y quise saber si aún esperaba algo. Me pareció que sí. Siempre se espera más

Se le instaló el desamparo en la voluntad.

El que se casa se siente elegido y a la vez siente el placer y la responsabilidad de elegir. Se comprende que no se ha agotado la posibilidad de elegir y de ser elegido

I saw everything before me in good order, possible, realized or realizable. Nevertheless, it was as if I, I myself, might generate failure. Not that I judged myself guilty of this failure; it was as if the guilt were an inheritance and had little to do with me. I was equipped with a kind of advance resignation. Everything is possible, I saw, and in the end every possibility can be exhausted.

Como un dios no puede crear dioses, pensó crear al hombre, para que este los creara.

Her ardor matched my own. For a time I was eighteen years old once more, in all the perfection of youth.

Me encontré con la Luna, que era una mujer gorda y desnuda, sentada en el horizonte.