--- title: "4 Letter Quotes By Jean-Dominique Bauby" description: "4 Letter quotes by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Plus more from Jean-Dominique Bauby and more Letter sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/605/jean-dominique-bauby-22407_banner_other-letters-simply-relate-the-small-ev_702618.jpg" --- > [Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/other-letters-simply-relate-the-small-events-that-punctuate-the/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/605/jean-dominique-bauby-22407_banner_other-letters-simply-relate-the-small-ev_702618.jpg) > [“Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/speech-therapy-is-an-art-that-deserves-to-be-more-widely-known-you/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/941/jean-dominique-bauby-22407_art_speech-therapy-is-an-art-that-deserves-t_956949.jpg) > [“I receive remarkable letters. They are opened for me, unfolded, and spread out before my eyes in a daily ritual that gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/i-receive-remarkable-letters-they-are-opened-for-me-unfolded-and/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/729/jean-dominique-bauby-22407_meaning-of-life_i-receive-remarkable-letters-they-are-op_1702873.jpg) > [“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passing of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/other-letters-simply-relate-the-small-events-that-punctuate-the-2/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de3/jean-dominique-bauby-22407_children_other-letters-simply-relate-the-small-ev_1734162.jpg) ## Other authors on Letter ## More by Jean-Dominique Bauby > [We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/we-thread-our-way-through-a-moving-forest-of-ice-cream-cones-and/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/if-i-must-drool-i-may-as-well-drool-on-cashmere/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/yet-i-understood-the-poetry-of-such-mind-games-one-day-when/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/vincent-had-ten-major-ideas-every-week-three-brilliant-five-good-and/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/i-am-fading-away-slowly-but-surely-like-the-sailor-who-watches-his/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/other-letters-simply-relate-the-small-events-that-punctuate-the/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [ “I skim through the issue \[of Elle\] and reach the offending photo, a montage that ridicules rather than glorifies our idol. It is one… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/i-skim-through-the-issue-of-elle-and-reach-the-offending-photo-a/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/the-memory-of-that-event-has-only-just-come-back-to-me-now-doubly/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/i-need-to-feel-strongly-to-love-and-to-admire-just-as-desperately-as/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/the-memory-of-that-event-has-only-just-come-back-to-me-now-doubly-2/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/speech-therapy-is-an-art-that-deserves-to-be-more-widely-known-you/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/does-it-take-the-harsh-light-of-disaster-to-show-a-person-s-true/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/there-comes-a-time-when-the-heaping-up-of-calamities-brings-on/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“But I see in the clothes a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/but-i-see-in-the-clothes-a-symbol-of-continuing-life-and-proof-that-i/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) > [“The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dominique-bauby/the-identity-badge-pinned-to-sandrine-s-white-tunic-says-speech/) [Jean-Dominique Bauby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dominique-bauby/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/letter/jean-dominique-bauby/#itemlist", "name": "4 Letter Quotes By Jean-Dominique Bauby", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. 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