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"The prince keeps [a] tortoise carefully enclosed in a chest in his ancestral temple. Now would this tortoise rather be dead and have its remains venerated, or would it rather be alive and wagging its tail in the mud?" "It would rather be alive... and wagging its tail in the mud." "Begone!" cried Chuang-tzu. "I too will wag my tail in the mud."
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Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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Born:
369 BC
Died:
286 BC
(aged 83)
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