Jean-Dominique Bauby quotes
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“I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.”
-- Jean-Dominique BaubySource : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.55, Knopf Group E-Books
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“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”
-- Jean-Dominique BaubySource : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.86, Knopf Group E-Books
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“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.”
-- Jean-Dominique BaubySource : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books
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“Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.”
-- Jean-Dominique BaubySource : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.36, Knopf Group E-Books
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“If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.”
-- Jean-Dominique BaubySource : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.17, Knopf Group E-Books
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“Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?”
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“Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.”
-- Jean-Dominique BaubySource : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books
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“Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.”
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“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.”
-- Jean-Dominique Bauby
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“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”
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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
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“Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.”
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“I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.”
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“We have to admire the world for not ending on us.”
Source : Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.281, Random House
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