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Jean-Dominique Bauby
Geburtstag:23. April 1952
Todesdatum:9. März 1997
Zitate Jean-Dominique Bauby
„I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„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 Bauby
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„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
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust it home. By the time you strike, even you no longer understand what had seemed so witty before you started to dictate it, letter by letter. So the rule is to avoid impulsive sallies. It deprives conversation of its sparkle, all those gems you bat back and forth like a ball-and I count this forced lack of humor one of the great drawbacks of my condition.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
