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My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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

Jean-Dominique Bauby

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

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Jean-Dominique Bauby

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Born: April 23, 1952

Died: March 9, 1997 (aged 44)

Bio: Jean-Dominique Bauby was a well-known French actor, author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE. He had two children with Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld, a son named Théophile and a daughter named Céleste.

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