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
men talking eating
Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
art art-is
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
pregnancy heart mind
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
god waiting suitors
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
smile flower laughing
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
life wise depressing
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
distance animal gestures
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
night justice court
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
animal expression our-words
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.