Malcolm de Chazal (1902–81) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Words
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Childhood
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Laughter
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Laughter
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Idealism, Ideals
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
—Malcolm de Chazal
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.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Women, Men & Women, Men
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Laughter
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.
—Malcolm de Chazal
Topics: Animals
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