Malcolm de Chazal - Eye Quotes

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

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.

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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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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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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