Top 18 Jean-Dominique Bauby Quotes
#1. The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.
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#2. You can handle the wheelchair, said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence.
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#4. Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.
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#5. What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?
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#7. In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.
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#8. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.
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#10. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
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#11. Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
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#13. 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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#14. 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.
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#15. When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.
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#16. In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.
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#17. We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
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#18. Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).
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