The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” ― Anaïs Nin Portrait of Anne André Lhote –
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Art · Reflection
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Jules Brassai Papillon à la bo
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Reflections · Reflection
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” ― Frida Kahlo Anonymous photographer: Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, 1930 www.moniquespassions.com
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Poetry · Reflection
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.” ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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Art · Reflection
Ivan Kramskoy Portrait of the Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, 1885 “The meaning and worth of love, as a feeling, is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for ANOTHER the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are con
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Reflections · Reflection
FREEDOM I am a privileged person, yes I realize this now more then ever. I am happy most of the times, sometimes not. I live in a place I have chosen to live, surrounded by people I love and they love me back. I am able to pay for my every day needs and passions.
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Music · Reflection
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven Max Klinger (1857-1920) Beethoven Memorial Marble and bronze
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Literature · Reflection
“My library is an archive of longings.” ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 Writer Susan Sontag shown Jan. 11, 1964. (AP Photo)
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Reflections · Reflection
Seldom I live in this imaginary world Surrounded by ghostly energy, I can feel it Nothing else is present in my dream today All that is there is this huge dark space I feel haunted now all the time What scares me most is being alone here All alone. Without any good soul to accomp
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Literature · Reflection
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ” ― Ian McEwan, Atonement Daydreaming at the Water’s Edge Henri Martin – 1899
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Literature · Reflection
“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to o
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