Jean-Dominique Bauby Quote

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


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


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

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

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

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