Jean-Dominique Bauby Quotes

Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine Elle. He had two children with Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld, a son named Théophile and a daughter named Céleste.



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✵ 23. April 1952 – 9. March 1997
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“The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.”

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

“If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.”

Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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