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Antastesia

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Antastesia’s Quotes

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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“To Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.”
― Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden

tags: anarchism, equanimity

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“La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas.”
― André Breton, Nadja

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“It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: darkness, past

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Antastesia's bookclub! — 1090 members — last activity Nov 29, 2017 04:09PM
Welcome to 'my' little bookclub! Which I'd rather call our bookclub ! Why? Because I am very very interested in your suggestions, your opinions, your ...more

Japanese Literature — 5598 members — last activity Apr 18, 2026 12:25AM
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Our Shared Shelf — 222863 members — last activity 19 hours, 55 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

Littérature française du XXIe siècle — 2825 members — last activity Mar 17, 2026 10:35PM
Romans français et francophones de l'an 2001 à nos jours. ...more