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I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear,...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town si...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing ...

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Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dus...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Jean-Dominique Bauby

Journalist

Born: 1952-04-23

Died: 1997-03-09

Jean-Dominique Bauby (23 April 1952 – 9 March 1997) was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE who suffered from locked-in syndrome. He was able to dictate his memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by blinking his left eye.More