Art · Reflection
GRIGORY GLUCKMANN ~ THE DRESSING ROOM
A painting I love! Grigory Gluckmann, (Russia, 1898-1973) The Dressing Room
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A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
ANAIS NIN ~ ON RELATIONSHIPS
“You know I have friends who used to laugh at me when I said we have to create a relationship. They thought relationship is a miracle, it just happens, it comes, we find it, and there it is. But it’s not true. I never found that to be true. One friend was amazed at things
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Literature · Reflection
ANNA AKHMATOVA ~ WAKING DREAMS
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.” ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems Anna Akhmatova. Slepnevo.1914
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Literature · Reflection
GEORGE ORWELL ~ ON WISDOM
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ ON LIFE
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we’re very fortunate, by time itself. There’
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Reflections · Essay
CAMILLE CLAUDEL, A FEMALE GENIUS ~ BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
A Female Genius… “You’re wrong to think it’s about you. You’re a sculptor, Rodin, not a sculpture. You ought to know. I am that old woman with nothing on her bones. And the aging young girl… that’s also me. And the man is me too. Not you. I gave him my toughness. He gave me
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Literature · Reflection
VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE SEA
“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness” ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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KAREN BLIXEN ~ CONSCIOUSNESS OF FREEDOM
“It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or
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Literature · Reflection
KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ I WANT TO TALK TO TCHEKOV
“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.” ― Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfi
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IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ A FEELING OF SOLITUDE
“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have? She lived in a deserted, silent house. The sound of her own footsteps in the empty rooms, the silence of the cold streets beyond the closed windows, the rai
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Literature · Reflection
ZELDA FITZGERALD ~ LONELINESS
The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things
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ANAIS NIN ~ ARE WE DEAD OR ALIVE?
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second sy
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