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

—  Jean-Dominique Bauby , book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion … 1952–1997

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