The title of this book about the story of Pedro Jose Lobo's life, born in East Timor in 1892, is the last line of a short poem by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Sent to Macau for schooling in 1901, Pedro Jose Lobo began his work life as a mathematics teacher and then a bank employee, rising to the position of chief of Macau's economics department from where he guided Macau through some of its most difficult times such as the virtual Japanese occupation during the World War II, the refugee situation and the Border Gate Incident that took place in 1952. He knew that Macau's survival meant that it had to stay independent and be useful to all parties as an independent entity. Readers of this book will have a better understanding of Macau as seen through the eyes of those who lived through some of its most important moments.