Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.

The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (ed. 1996) - ISBN: 9781878818652