Quotes by
Malcolm de Chazal |
1902-1981 , Mauritian thinker & aphorist
Mauritian writer, painter, and thinker, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées. | 14 quotes | 1,020 visits |
Quotations
| • | The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. 4 |
| • | An indifferent gaze is a goodbye that lasts forever. 3 |
| • | The word God is the most perfect summary. 2 |
| • | A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. 2 |
| • | The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem. 2 |
| • | Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. 1 |
| • | What prevents us from seeing God is that our spirit is complex, while God's is simple. |
| • | When it is indifferent, the eye takes still photographs. When it is interested, films. |
| • | Art is nature accelerated and God slowed down. |
| • | Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind. |
| • | Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us. |
| • | This country cultivates sugar cane and prejudices. |
| • | Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating. |
| • | Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. |
