Top 38 Nelson Rodrigues Quotes
#1. Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
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#3. If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.
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#6. 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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#9. 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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#12. Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!
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#15. Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.
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#17. The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
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#18. The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
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#21. A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
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#24. In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.
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#25. 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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#29. Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding.
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#33. Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.
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#34. We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.
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#35. 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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