Nelson Rodrigues Aphorisms

Those with meaning only to Brazil were skipped (those with what Brazil means were kept)

"We should little and reread a lot. There are few books (which are)total, three or four, which either save or loose us. It is needed to reread them over and over, with obtuse obstinacy.

God save me to be smart...

"Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil."

"Any individual is more important than the Milky Way."

"In our century, the 'great man' can be at the same time, an asshole."

Unanimity is always stupid.

Only the prophets see the obvious. ( the obvious is howling)

Love is impossible without bite marks.

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

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

Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!

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

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

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

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

Not all women like a beating. Only the normal ones.

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

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

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

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

Everything goes,excpet the adulteress. In the bars and at wakes, at cornerr and in pharmacies, there is always someone talking about the ladies who cheat. The successful love does not interest anyone

Brazilians are not prepared to be 'world's greatest' in anything. Be 'world's greatest' in anything, even in spitting distance, implies a serious, heavy and suffocating responsibility

Brazilian kindness.is deteriorating Every fifteen minutes, increases the wearing of our delicacy.

"The artist has to be a genius to some and jerk to others. If he or she you can be stupid for everyone, it is even better."

Wedding is the important thing

Brazillians are a holiday

Marriage is the maximum of solitude with minimal privacy