“I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passing of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark... I hoard all these letters like treasure.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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