“To be the best in the world in anything, even 'long distance spitting', implies a grave, heavy and suffocating responsibility.”

—  Nélson Rodrigues

Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues, Companhia das Letras, 1992

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Brazilian writer and playwright 1912–1980

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