Moniqs

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Stories to linger over.

A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.

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ANAIS NIN ~ ON PERSONALITY

Art · Reflection

ANAIS NIN ~ ON PERSONALITY

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the

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ODILON REDON ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST

Art · Reflection

ODILON REDON ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST

The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion

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RENE MAGRITTE ~ ON THE ART LITERATURE

Art · Reflection

RENE MAGRITTE ~ ON THE ART LITERATURE

…all critical literature prowling around the world of art should be aware of its essential absurdity, which makes one think of a swarm of clumsy flies buzzing around a decomposing corpse. Rene Magritte Painting The Secret Double (Le double secret) 1927

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ELIAS CANETTI ~ ON DREAMS

Art · Reflection

ELIAS CANETTI ~ ON DREAMS

LA CHIMARE ~ ODILON REDON “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” Elias Canetti Elias Canetti ( Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905–14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi-Jewish ancestry who wrote in German. He won

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MIKHAIL VRUBEL ~ NIGHT

Art · Reflection

MIKHAIL VRUBEL ~ NIGHT

“Night” 1900 by Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) Mikhail Vrubel was a versatile artist who excelled in painting, graphics, sculpture, as well as in monumental and applied arts. His name is routinely associated with Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau and perhaps rightly so. Mikhail Alexa

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