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“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about books. I thought about escape. Not running to escape but reading to escape. Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that “words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.” That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.”
― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“und dass es in Nordamerika kaum zweieiige Zwillinge gab (ganz anders beispielsweise in Nigeria, wo Zwillinge die Norm waren).�”
― Ghana Must Go
― Ghana Must Go
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“ihr schlechtes Englisch lustig machen und über ihr halbautonomes Hinterteil, bei dem sich jede Hälfte einzeln bewegt; er wird sagen, dass das Land nie vorankommen kann, solange der normale Mensch sich so bewegt. Ohne Konzept. Unehrgeizige Schenkel und Schultern, die abrollen, lauter abgerundete Linien, wie eine Amöbe, eine frühe Lebensform. Wie der Ozean�.”
― Ghana Must Go
― Ghana Must Go
“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
― Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
Lese’s 2025 Year in Books
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