“The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.”

—  Nélson Rodrigues

Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues; Collection of the works of Nelson Rodrigues: the 1000 best quotes by Nelson Rodrigues, Published by Companhia das Letras, 1992 ISBN 8571646678, 9788571646674 - 183 pages, Page 94

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Brazilian writer and playwright 1912–1980

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