42 Nelson Rodrigues phrases that show life as it is

All unanimity is stupid.

Nothing frustrates a woman more than that freedom she didn’t ask for, doesn’t want and doesn’t realize.

The television killed the window.

Impartiality alone deserves our laughter.

All boos are good, even the bad ones.

The joke is the guise of an incurable hurt.

Only prophets see the obvious.

The adult does not exist, man is a perennial child.

Little love is not love.

I am a man who cries. My sentimentality is my strong point.

All love is eternal. And if it ends, it wasn’t love.

Being pretty doesn’t matter. Be interesting.

Don’t be in a hurry to forgive. Mercy also corrupts.

Nothing humbles us more than the courage of others.

My inspiration is the sum of all the lives I’ve had, through all eras, all ages.

To love is to give reason to those who don’t have it.

Money buys everything, even true love.

I envy stupidity, because it is eternal.

If the facts are against me, so much the worse for the facts.

The Brazilian is a holiday.

I have a few obsessions that I cultivate with patience and love. One of them is the sea.

Love leaves no survivors.

The great event of the century was the astonishing and fulminating rise of the idiot.

Modesty is the most aphrodisiac of virtues.

God is in the coincidences.

The human being, as we imagine, does not exist.

Who wins or loses matches is the soul.

All coherence is, to say the least, suspect.

Only the face is indecent. From the neck down, you could walk around naked.

Without passion, you can’t even suck a popsicle.

Things said only once die unheard.

If everyone knew each other’s sexual intimacy, no one would greet anyone.

The great coexistences are a millimeter from boredom.

The death of a love is worse than personal and physical death.

I need to be astonished with the greatest urgency.

Either the woman is cold or she bites. Without a bite there is no love possible.

It is in the pause that two people understand each other and enter into communion.

I refuse to believe that a politician, even the sweetest politician, has a moral sense.

I’m a boy who sees love through the keyhole. I was never anything else.

Most people imagine that the most important thing in dialogue is the word. Mistake: the important thing is the break!

Freedom is more important than bread.

What gives a man a modicum of inner unity is the sum of his obsessions.