"I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe."

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Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.55, Knopf Group E-Books

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#Needs Quotes #Breathe Quotes #Admire Quotes

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“Type should be beautiful â€” Screw readable!”
“That is the manner in which I roll.”
“Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.”
“He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.”
“Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1909). “Some everyday folk and dawn”
“In a dream it's typical not to be rational.”
“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.”

Source : Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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