Malcolm De Chazal Quotes
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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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…
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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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…
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The ears are the last feature to age.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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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…
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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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…
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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