30 phrases by Luis Fernando Verissimo to honor the writer

My defense: never in the history of the world has love corrupted anyone.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

The further away from an explosion, the more is known about it.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

We live surrounded by our alternatives, by what we could have been.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

The future was much better back then.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

I developed a defensive mind like a gated community. A mind with a guardhouse, which shoots down any enemy at the gate.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Nothing like a good conversation to find a solution to anything, even insanity.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Some things have changed, but look at the view. The view is the same.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

My only goal in life is to be a nice professional until I can retire.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

But I suspect that the only free person, really free, completely free, is the one who is not afraid of ridicule.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

But, as with everything in life, love also requires moderation.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Man is the only animal that always wants more than he needs.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

There are people clinging to the pole to avoid falling on the social scale and hijacking an elevator to go up in life.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Those born with the altruistic gene sacrifice themselves for the ruling elite because they exist for that.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Irony has to be understood as irony, otherwise it is not irony.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Brazil is formed by a ruling class and a deceived class.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

In a system that does not fear ridicule, the jester is the freest and most reckless man at court.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Autumn is the only civilized season. Spring is Nature’s glandular lack of control. Winter is the price we pay for autumn, and for that it’s forgiven. Summer is an indignity.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

What Freud would say you wouldn’t understand anyway. Or do you know German?

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Good ends without reward and the only punishment for evil is never to end.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

In Brazil, bottoming out is just a stage.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

He had waited his whole life for fate to give a sign of what it had prepared for him.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

The half-smile with her lips closed never left her face.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

We spend our entire lives preparing for our death and when it comes we cannot watch.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Nobody is what they think they are, much less what they say they are. We need complication to define us. In other words: no one is anything alone, we are our behavior with the other.

Luis Fernando Verissimo