Top 25 Dominique Bauby Quotes

#1. The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#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.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#3. Castaways on the shores of loneliness

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#4. Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are.

Hayley Williams

#5. Man.
Motorcyle.
Mountains.

Tracy March

#6. Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

Bai Ling

#7. Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

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#8. Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Thomas Steinbeck

#9. What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?

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#10. France was at peace; one couldn't shoot the bearers of bad news.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#11. 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.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#12. Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

Valerie Worth

#13. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.

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#14. Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person's true nature?

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#15. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

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#16. Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

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#17. If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.

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#21. In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

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#22. Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#23. No one can see me, no one knows me;
All men are deaf, no ears disclose me

Taras Shevchenko

#24. We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#25. 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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