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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
Malcolm de Chazal
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Malcolm de Chazal
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Malcolm de Chazal
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Malcolm de Chazal
Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.
Malcolm de Chazal
The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.
Malcolm de Chazal
The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.
Malcolm de Chazal
We see a friend's eye as one and indivisible. A stranger's eye we take in part by part: the white, the iris, and the pupil.
Malcolm de Chazal
Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.
Malcolm de Chazal
Petals are a plant's eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.
Malcolm de Chazal
Nothing is more certain than that war promotes science and increases comforts. Utopia may mean no more wars, but universal peace and plenty will never reign until at least one more war raises mankind to a plane of such comfort and ease that nobody on either side of a frontier can even imagine the possibility of resorting to arms. Comfort creates wars and comfort may someday end them.
Malcolm de Chazal
The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.
Malcolm de Chazal
A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.
Malcolm de Chazal
I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.
Malcolm de Chazal
The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.
Malcolm de Chazal
No matter how much leaves are fixed face to face they always look at each other aslant, whereas all fruits end up head-on however carelessly jumbled. A bunch of flowers is a house of colored cards. A heap of fruit is a hive of colored bees.
Malcolm de Chazal
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm de Chazal
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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.
Malcolm de Chazal
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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
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
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