Butterfly Dream

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Once upon a time I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies (as a butterfly), and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awaked, and there I lay, myself again I do not know whether I was then dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that it is a man.


[Chinese Wit and Humour]

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