The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Literature · Reflection
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
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Literature · Reflection
“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affai
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Literature · Reflection
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles William Eliot Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890) Dolce far niente Oil on Canvas -1877
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Literature · Reflection
“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.” – Primo Levi
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Reflections · Essay
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ~Anais Nin. When I was asked to write a column for an American cultural magazine, my first thought was if I would be able to do this, first of all being European
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“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ~Anais Nin. When I was asked to write a column for an American cultural magazine, my first thought was if I would be able to do this, first of all being European
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Literature · Reflection
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain.
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Art · Reflection
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” Voltaire
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Literature · Reflection
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such
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Poetry · Reflection
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde
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Art · Reflection
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein
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