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
night justice court
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
distance animal gestures
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
smile flower laughing
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
pregnancy heart mind
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
women details kind
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
god waiting suitors
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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 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.
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.
atheist men mirrors
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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.
smile laughter heartless
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
tiptoes idealism idealist
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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.