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
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.
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.
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.
age lasts ears
The ears are the last feature to age.
children philosopher poet
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
flower french-writer oriental
The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.