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For most of my life there was a city called Leningrad; now it’s called St Petersburg. Leningrad, it turned out, was just a blip, but we all thought it was here to stay. That’s why I was always against communism: people telling you that you
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“At the heart of almost all the pathways I’ve learned about is one guiding principle: if we feel safe, cared for and in control—in a critical moment during injury or disease, or generally throughout our lives—we do better. We feel less pain, less fatigue, less sickness. Our immune system works with us instead of against us. Our bodies ease off on emergency defenses and can focus on repair and growth.”
― Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
― Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
“Few of her achievements have been recognised, and when they are, the credit is invariably given to the men serving her. This is largely due to a basic handicap: that she was a woman and could only rule in the name of her sons ... In terms of groundbreaking achievements, political sincerity and personal courage, Empress Dowager Cixi set a standard that has barely been matched.”
― Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
― Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
“As I listened I felt a dull numbness, like the effect of chloroform, rather than the primal, anarchic agony you usually feel when you encounter someone you have loved now turned to dust, in some object like a little bowl, and you are required to believe that it is still the same person who once smiled at you.”
― The Door
― The Door
“Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s a reversion to constant, visceral fear.”
― Nutshell
― Nutshell
Linne’s 2025 Year in Books
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