We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs. — Jean-Dominique Bauby Cones Copy Share Image
“Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Mind games Copy Share Image
“Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.” — Jean-Dominique Bauby 90 Copy Share Image
“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede.… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Memory Copy Share Image
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Banner Copy Share Image
“I skim through the issue [of Elle] and reach the offending photo, a montage that ridicules rather than glorifies our idol. It… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Photography Copy Share Image
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Chance Copy Share Image
“I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Psychology Copy Share Image
“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Happiness Copy Share Image
“Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Art Copy Share Image
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? — Jean-Dominique Bauby Disaster Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Humor Copy Share Image
“But I see in the clothes a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Fashion Copy Share Image
“The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.” — Jean-Dominique Bauby Guardian angel Copy Share Image
“I receive remarkable letters. They are opened for me, unfolded, and spread out before my eyes in a daily ritual that gives… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Meaning of life Copy Share Image
“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passing of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Children Copy Share Image
“Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Life Copy Share Image
I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. — Jean-Dominique Bauby Admire Copy Share Image
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Blow Copy Share Image
Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Communication Copy Share Image
“Wir haben beide das Locked-In-Syndrom, jeder auf seine Weise, ich in meinem Gehause, er in seinem 3ten Stock” — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
“My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly” — Jean-Dominique Bauby Psychology Copy Share Image
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories. — Jean-Dominique Bauby Art Copy Share Image
