Jean-Dominique Bauby citations

“I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.”

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

“Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?”

“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.”

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

“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.”