Zhuang Zhou - Tail Quotes

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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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