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."

"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."

"Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes."

"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 …"

"A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts."

"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 n…"