The year of Ricardo Reis's death, by: José Saramago

A wise person is who is content with watching the world "Ricardo Reis" Choosing inaction was, always, my life's preoccupation and obsession "Bernardo Soares" If I am told that it is futile to talk, in this way, about someone who never existed, I reply that I have no evidence that Lisbon, is also, has existed or that I, who am writing or anything else, anywhere, have found Fernando Pessoa Number of pages 445