Malcolm De Chazal Quotes

• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

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• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  Malcolm De Chazal

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

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• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

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• The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

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• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

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• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

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• The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun’s harem – the most oriental thing imaginable.

  Malcolm De Chazal

• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

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• The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

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• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

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• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.

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• Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

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• Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

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• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Malcolm De Chazal (17)

Birth:	12th September, 1902
Death:	1st October, 1981
Nationality:	Mauritian
Profession:	Painter, Writer

About

Malcolm de Chazal was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées. Chazal was born in Vacoas of a French family long established in Mauritius and wrote all his works in French. Except for six years at Louisiana State University, where he received an engineering degree, he spent most of his time in Mauritius where he worked as an agronomist on sugar plantations and later for the Office of Telecommunications.

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