The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, an
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Literature · Reflection
“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.” ― Rudyard Kipling, Kim Rudyard Kipling John Maler Collier – 1900
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Literature · Reflection
“Just how the night turns into day, oppression leads to freedom” “Así como de la noche nace el claro del día, de la opresión nace la libertad.” Benito Perez Galdos Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in statur
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Literature · Reflection
Evening Jakub Schikaneder – circa 1900 “I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns
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Literature · Reflection
“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the m
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Literature · Reflection
“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Alone Emilio Longoni – 1900
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Literature · Reflection
“If we look closely, most things in this world are the results of imagination.” Maria Konstantinowna Bashkirtseff (1858-1884) The Umbrella 1883 State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) Young Woman with Lilacs
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Literature · Reflection
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists…” Marcel Proust
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Literature · Reflection
“the only prospect which is really desirable or delightful, is that from the window of the breakfast-room where we meet the first light of the dewy day, the first breath of the morning air, the first glance of gentle eyes; to which we descend in the very spring and elasticity of
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Literature · Reflection
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more wide
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Literature · Reflection
“There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery” Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country. (Wikipedia)
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