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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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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Nelson Rodrigues
Born:
August 23, 1912
Died:
December 21, 1980
(aged 68)
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