Já há provas mais do que suficientes para tirarmos a limpo que aqueles que produzem obras geniais não são os que foram criados em meios delicados, nem aqueles que apresentam a conversa mais brilhante e a cultura mais extensa, mas os que conseguiram conquistar o poder de, e parafraseando Marcel Proust, “parando de repente de viver para si mesmos, tornam a sua personalidade semelhante a um espelho, de tal maneira que a sua vida, por muito medíocre que, por outro lado, pudesse ser mundanamente falando, nele se reflicta, já que o génio consiste no poder reflector e não na qualidade do espectáculo reflectido”.

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Por desajuste existencial, eu não consigo ser guardador de rebanhos. O que eu sei guardar são seixos do rio.

É trágico. Dizem que os partidos políticos são necessários à democracia. E é verdade. O trágico é que não se distinguem uns dos outros, estão todos, fora alguns arrebatamentos efémeros, irmanados na mediocridade e, com vossa licença, passo a citar Torga: “tal como rãs do mesmo charco que entoam a mesmíssima cantilena”.

Desde sempre, e para sempre, a religião, segundo os estadistas e moralistas, tem a concordância de Napoleão Bonaparte: “A religião é excelente para manter sossegada a gente comum”.

Foi Séneca, já lá vão uns séculos largos, quem afirmou: “A religião é vista pela gente comum como verdadeira, pelos sábios como falsa e pelos governantes como útil.”

Dorme, ou faz que dorme… shhh…

O Demónio faz que… shhh e não dorme. Dorme Deus ou faz que shhh? Faz que shhh Deus?

O Demónio faz que dorme… Ou faz de Deus! Não sei se shhh… ou Deus… ou o Demónio… ou… shhh… shhh…

O Demónio dorme…

Deus dorme…

Shhh…

Por vezes dizem-me que sofro de pessimismo crónico. E eu sorrio.

Um meu amigo costuma defender que um optimista é um pessimista parvo. E eu sorrio. Há por aí muito boa gente que solenemente celebra todas as datas cristãs com o mínimo de disponibilidade humana e o máximo de hipocrisia social.

A todos digo que, apesar de preservar alguma consciência crítica, de persistir e insistir no meu caminho em busca da verdade, apesar disso, tenho alguma reserva de esperança. É que ninguém escreve se não tiver esperança.

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Ainda me resta alguma consolação.

Sou levado a pensar, com algum alívio intelectual à mistura, que as pessoas grosseiras e ignorantes são o seu próprio castigo.