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Having dreamt he was a butterfly, he cannot tell whether he is a man who dreamt or a butterfly dreaming it is a man
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- Zhuangzi Chinese Daoist philosopher of the fourth century BC…
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.
Where this was said
↗Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889)gutenberg.org
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