Malcolm de Chazal
Malcolm de Chazal was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées.
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- Vacoas-Phoenix
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Trending topics shown first"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."
"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."
"The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes."
"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."
"Nothing is more certain than that war promotes science and increases comforts. Utopia may mean no more wars, but universal peace and plenty will never reign until at least one more war raises mankind …"
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1902
Born
Birth1981
Died
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