The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.” Anton Chekhov
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Literature · Reflection
“It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland.” ― Colette, My Mother’s House & Sido
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Literature · Reflection
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Literature · Reflection
” Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.” Andre Gide
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Literature · Reflection
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” ―
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Literature · Reflection
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable” ― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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Literature · Reflection
“Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do
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Literature · Reflection
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Photo: Greta Garbo, 1934
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Literature · Reflection
Carl Larsson Karin Reading, 1904 I love books, I love to read, I love to look at books, love to touch books… Monique
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Literature · Reflection
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature · Reflection
“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ” ― V
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Literature · Reflection
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ―
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