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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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Human beings are blind to their own faults. In the movies, villains never proclaim that they are villains. Nor do idiots say that they are idiots. Our faults lie within us, active and fierce, but unconfessed. I've never seen a man walk downstage and announce, his head held high, "Ladies and gentleman, I'm a scumbag!"

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Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

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Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Nelson Rodrigues

Nelson Rodrigues

Born: August 23, 1912
Died: December 21, 1980 (aged 68)
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