"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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Source : "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, (p. 34), 1992.

Nelson Rodrigues

#Pressure Quotes #Scoundrels Quotes #Collectives Quotes

“Right now I'm pouring my heart out and she's pulling faces”
“We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.”
“I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.”
“The kid looks good in his first game.”
“You are most powerful when you are most silent....”
“I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.”
“We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.”

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“I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.”

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