“Human beings are blind to their own faults. In the movies, villains never proclaim that they are villains. Nor do idiots say that they are idiots. Our faults lie within us, active and fierce, but unconfessed. I've never seen a man walk downstage and announce, his head held high, "Ladies and gentleman, I'm a scumbag!"”

—  Nélson Rodrigues

"Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues," page 34.

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Brazilian writer and playwright 1912–1980

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