Quote by Mario Benedetti: “Do not love me just when you miss me. Love me when you don't.”

Loving someone only when you feel their absence is a kind of selfishness — it is about your own comfort, not real care for them. Genuine love means thinking of someone, valuing them, and showing up for them even when they are present and you are not in need.

Benedetti published extensively in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as Uruguay was beginning to experience the political polarization that would lead to military dictatorship in 1973. His writing of this period combined an intimate attention to urban everyday life with an emerging political consciousness shaped by the Cuban Revolution.

Uruguayan novelist, poet, and playwright, one of the most widely read writers in the Spanish-speaking world, with a body of work that combined political engagement and intimate lyricism. He spent years in exile during Uruguay's military dictatorship before returning to Montevideo in 1983.