Malcolm de Chazal Quotes

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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down.

Malcolm de Chazal
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Malcolm de Chazal
The crown of petals is the flower's panties. Rip them off and you will have public indecency.

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The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

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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.

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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
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.

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Any man who acts singly in the press of a mob will get trampled. Shifting into reverse while making love can kill you.

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.

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The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it is private property.

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Like a hawk about to devour its prey, the wings of public opinion hover above the head of the judge. All the Court's decisions are disguised and indirect forms of pleading at the bar of public opinion.

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Flowers are both knowing and innocent, with experienced mouths but childlike eyes. They bend the two poles of life into a divinely closed circle.

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Petals are a plant's eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.

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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.

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A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.

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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.

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We know the halls of the eye like welcome visitors but we live in our mouth.

Malcolm de Chazal
Immediately before it falls, water turns into a living being as if a person's soul had just slipped into it: look at the way it bends and twists, writhing in desperation. (What if you threw a not quite cold corpse out of an airplane — would the dead awaken?...)

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Flowers are always peerlessly dressed, formal in splendor, at the height of elegance on all occasions except at the first appearance of the fruit when they change into something skimpy.

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The cat purrs itself to sleep, being the only creature that sings its own lullaby.

Malcolm de Chazal