The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
Some Wisdom by Fernando Pessoa From The Book of Disquiet written by Fernando Pessoa. (1888-1935) “What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreamin
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Reflections · Reflection
The exotic world of Henri Rousseau “When…I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream.” Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) Henri Rousseau one of France’s best realist painters? It is very funny that Rousseau painted all these exotic landscapes while
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Poetry · Essay
A poem by Paul Eluard “I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to…
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A WRITER LOVES HER CAT. “I went to collect the few personal belongings which…I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.” ― Colette Why is it that so many writers of today and in the past, like Colette for example, love cats so much?
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Poetry · Essay
Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016) “Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.” We mourn the passing of a Leonard Norman Cohen: Canadian Singer, Songwriter, Poet and Novelist.…
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Literature · Reflection
Voltaire once said: “Illusion is the first of all Pleasures.” What is she thinking about, it makes you wonder if her disillusion – as depicted in this painting – could actually be an illusion in itself. A trick of the mind that causes this emotion inside, a feeling of sadness and
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Art · Essay
I was still little when I saw this painting called “Girl with Peaches” for the first time. I found it while looking onto one of the wonderfully bonded art books my aunt collected. This particular one was filled with Russian Painters, mostly from the late 18th and early 19th centu
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Literature · Reflection
“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to ke
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie Wiesel Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel KBE was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Laureate. Wikipe
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Literature · Reflection
Some books leave us free and some books make us free – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature · Reflection
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them — wit
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Art · Reflection
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, D
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