“Wasting time has an esthetics to it.”

— Fernando Pessoa , book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Perder tempo comporta uma estética

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Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935

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