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Dreamer's Four Nights
A nameless man falls in love over four nights in St. Petersburg and loses her by the fifth. Dostoevsky wrote this in 1848 and somehow got the loneliest feeling in the world exactly right.
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Meursault's Real Crime
Camus wrote The Stranger as a novel about a murder. It's really about a man who refused to pretend and why that made him more dangerous to society than any killer.
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✦ ESSAY
The Self That Buddhism Says Doesn't Exist
"Buddhism has a sharper answer to what the self actually is than anything I'd read from the West. Its answer: the self doesn't exist."
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— APHORISM
Embracing the Void
Nihilism isn’t about despair,it’s the raw canvas before you choose to paint.
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Pokhara in a Nutshell
From the quiet hill top stupa to the rush of paragliding over Fewa Lake here’s a quick, no fluff guide to Pokhara’s temples, gorge, and lakeside scene.
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