The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.
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Art · Reflection
“Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.” Alberto Giacometti
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Literature · Reflection
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Poetry · Reflection
Know that space dilates with your own breath; sing out, as a bird in the desert from the shadowy rafters of its own high perch- Our senses cannot fathom this darkness, so learn the transformations through and through staving off the inevitable is futile, non-efficacious and fruit
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“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.” ANTONI TAPIES Barcelona, 1923 – 2012, painter, sculptor. Tàpies eschewed traditional painting materials and championed the use of all sorts of other materials long before arte povera became a fashionable cri
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Literature · Reflection
Rochester: “Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” Jane: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” Charlotte Bronte, Jane Ey
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Poetry · Essay
For sure you must have a soul Somewhere there buried inside With strong metal welded shut tide You play your mister perfect role But things are not as they always seem Fragile are the walls that you keep up And if I could peak through the cracks Its all just compromises into extr
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Literature · Reflection
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” Oscar Wilde
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Art · Reflection
Medusa” Anthony Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) In Greek Mythology Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa), “guardian, protectress”) was a Gorgon, a cothonic female monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto; Only Hyginus, (Fabulae, 151) interposes a generation and gives another cohthonic
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Literature · Reflection
Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919), Sarah Bernhardt et Christine Nilsson 1883 Collection particulière
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Literature · Reflection
Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), Miss Auras (The Red Book) Collection particulière
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Literature · Reflection
“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a sce
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