The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
* “I want my dark lady. I want my angel. I want my tempter. I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honour, laughter, music, love, life and immortality. I want my inspiration, my folly, my happiness, my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my final sanity and sanctificat
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Art · Reflection
“Life … is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don’t expect it.” Niki de Saint Phalle
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Art · Reflection
DREAMS Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967 / Missouri/The United States) Drawing of Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss
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Literature · Reflection
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for? Virginia Woolf
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Literature · Reflection
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad (185
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Literature · Reflection
Don’t you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art? Robert Musil (1880 – 1942)
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Literature · Reflection
“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.” Thomas Mann (Death in Venice)
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Art · Reflection
“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” Jean Cocteau
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Art · Reflection
“When Chagall paints, you do not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel” -Pablo Picasso, 1961
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Art · Reflection
“Her pale coloring, her eyes, how big and round and black they are! They are my eyes, my soul…I know this is she, my wife” -Marc Chagall, in My Life, on meeting Bella Rosenfeld for the first time
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Art · Reflection
“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.” Salvador Dali
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