The year Ricardo Reis died | José Saramago

A wise person is one who is content with watching the world. Ricardo Reis. The choice of inaction has always been, and remains, my preoccupation and obsession in life. Bernardo Soares. If I am told that it is futile to speak, in this manner, about someone who never existed, I reply that I have no evidence that Lisbon has also existed or that I, who am writing, or anything else, anywhere, has been found. Fernando Pessoa.