Zitate von Jean-Dominique Bauby
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Geburtstag: 23. April 1952
Todesdatum: 9. März 1997
Jean-Dominique Bauby war ein französischer Journalist, Autor und Chefredakteur des Magazins Elle.
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„I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, buch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Quelle: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, buch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Quelle: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, buch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Quelle: 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, buch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Quelle: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„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.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, buch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Quelle: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
„The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.“
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, buch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death), trans. Jeremy Leggatt (Vintage, 1998, ISBN 0-375-70121-4), p. 82
