Para viver um grande amor [English translation]

To live a great love it takes a lot of concentration and a lot of courage, a lot of serenity and few laughs - to live a great love

To live a great love mister, is to be a one woman's man. Because to be a few women's man.... well - that's not valuable

To live a great love first you have to become a consecrated knight and live as a whole for your donzel - however. You have to make your body a temple where you fit the loved one and keep the outdoors from strangers with a sword - to live a great love

To live a great love, I tell you, you have to be careful about your old friend, because it only takes one from the outside to delude you from the great love. You have to be extremely careful about anyone who is not in love, because anyone who isn't is always ready to mess up with a great love

To live a great love, in reality, you have to put in your mind that there is no love without fidelity - to live a great love. Because who betrayes the great love for vanity is not familiar with the freedoom, this huge and ubreakable freedom that only love can bring.

To live a great love, besides being loyal, you have to be familiar with the art of cooking and of the judo - to live a great love

To live a great and perfect love, being a good guy is not enough; you need a strong chest, strong like a rower's. You have to always look at your lover as if she was both your first girlfriend and your future widow, in pieces crying for her dead love.

It's mandatory to think about credict for roses at the flower shop - much, much more than at the clothing store - to please your great love. Because what the great love really wants is love, and love, and more love; and after, a good pork meat with beans counts points on your favour.

It counts to know how to do little things: eggs, shrimp, soup, sauces, strogonoff, - food for after the love making. And is there anything better than going to the kitchen and making a tasty chicken your great love?

To live a great love it is very, very important to live always together and, if possible, become one only corpse - so that the other won't die in pain. It takes permanet control not only with the body but also with the soul, because a low self will be felt by the other half and make love a little cold. You have to be very polite without politeness, sweet and tender without cowardy. You have to learn how to spend money on poetry - to live a great love.

You have to learn how to drink a whiskey (not recommended if you are a bad drinker) and to be impermeable to the gossipers who don't want you to live the love.

But all of that is useless if, in this dark and crazy jungle, you don't have the ability to find the right one to live a great love with.

(1962)