Quotes by Nelson Rodrigues

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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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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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A fidelidade devia ser facultativa.
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Husbands shouldn’t be the last to know. Husbands should never know!
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Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.
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The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
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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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I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.
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The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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