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Malcolm de Chazal [1902-1981] French

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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.

Smile, Art, Beauty, Men, Nature

Quote	Tags	Rank
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.	Men	101
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.		102
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.	Art, Nature	103
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.	Smile	104
The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.		105
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.		106
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.		107
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.	Smile	108
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.		109
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.	Smile	110
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.		111
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.		112
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.		113
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.	Beauty	114
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.		115
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.		116
Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.		117

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