The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
“Woman’s role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don’t mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fa
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Literature · Reflection
“Anaïs, I don’t know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. This is a little drunken, Anaïs. I
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Literature · Reflection
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to
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Literature · Reflection
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. – Jean Genet
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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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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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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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Literature · Reflection
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” Oscar Wilde
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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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