"To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day."
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Life As It Is, page ii, by Nelson Rodrigues, English translation, Alex Ladd, Host Publications, pages
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