Malcolm de Chazal
Malcolm de Chazal
Malcolm de Chazalwas a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
CountryFrance
flower french-writer oriental
The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
children philosopher poet
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
age lasts ears
The ears are the last feature to age.
pain laughter eye
The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
tiptoes idealism idealist
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
men animal looks
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
believe humility fingers
The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.
smile laughter heartless
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
funny women talking
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.
atheist men mirrors
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
sleep men animal
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.
distance eye laughing
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
women details kind
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
men thinking laughing
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.