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Zhuangzi

Zhuang Zhou

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 300 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Classical Chinese
Pages
Pages 200

A Chinese sage teaches through jokes, dreams and useless trees that the way to live is to stop forcing life, and wonders whether he is a man who dreamed he was a butterfly or the other way round.

Whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi, Zhuang Zhou

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