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Frasi di Jean-Dominique Bauby

Jean-Dominique Bauby è stato un giornalista francese, e redattore capo della rivista ELLE.

✵ 23. Aprile 1952 – 9. Marzo 1997
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Jean-Dominique Bauby: Frasi in inglese

“The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.”

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Jean-Dominique Bauby libro The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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

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

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Jean-Dominique Bauby libro The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Origine: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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

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Jean-Dominique Bauby libro The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Origine: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“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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Jean-Dominique Bauby libro The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Origine: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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

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Jean-Dominique Bauby libro The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Origine: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“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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Jean-Dominique Bauby libro The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Origine: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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