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“I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”

— Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi's most famous passage, dissolving the boundary between self and other, dream and reality.

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