Nelson Rodrigues Quotes & Sayings

#1. Money buys everything, even true love.

#2. A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

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#3. Love is impossible without bite marks.

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#4. If life turns her back on you, grab her ass.

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#5. In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

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#6. Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love.

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#7. Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

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#8. I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

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#9. The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

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#10. Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding.

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#11. Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

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#12. The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

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#13. To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

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#14. Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.

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#15. We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

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#16. It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

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#17. Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil.

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#18. The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

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#19. I only believe in those who can still blush.

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#20. Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

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#21. Saturday is an illusion.

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#22. If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

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#23. Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.

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#24. Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

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#25. Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

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#26. In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

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#27. I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

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#28. To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.

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