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Malcolm de Chazal: top 200 quotes
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Water (n.) is the only substance friction will not wear out.
Water (n.) is, when flowing, the only dancer whose whole body dances in any one gyration.
Water (n.) is a man’s voice in the brook and a woman’s voice in the fountain.
Water (n.) is a seesaw with no fulcrum just as air is a hopeless swing.
The Sun (n.) is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it is private property.
The Orchid (n.) is a flower whose petals flow from its face like a river of white whiskers.
The Orchid (n.) has an ancient air; it seems as if it were transplanted from an infinitely older planet than the one we inhabit; a time; or from the night of time in which our own racial memory is completely lost.
The Alphabet (n.) is the periodic table of words
A Rose (n.) is the milk-teeth of the sun.
The Look (n.) is capable of having a sullying effect — Light is never dirty except in the human look.
A Look (n.) is the eye’s magnet moving its object like the coachman-sun drives his planetary cars.
The Azalea (n.) bursts into a froth of deep red sparkling roses that make your mouth tingle with the sweetness of hard candy.
Love (n.) is a toboggan in which those who are joined become each other's vehicle.
Art (n.) is nature speeded up and God slowed down.