“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
“I needed to sing — desperately.”
Bubbles : A Self-Portrait (1976), p. 114
Context: I needed to sing — desperately. My voice poured out more easily because I was no longer singing for anyone's approval; I was beyond caring about the public's reaction, I just wanted to enjoy myself. … I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity, as a result of my childrens' problems. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not — more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
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