I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

  • -- Zhuangzi 庄子

昔者庄周梦为胡蝶,栩栩然胡蝶也。自喻适志与!不知周也。俄然觉,则蘧蘧然周也。不知周之梦为胡蝶与?胡蝶之梦为周与?

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I'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.

我向任何人推荐这条公路。你对它感到好奇,直到你发现它对每个人都有效,你才会真正感激它。但我推荐它。

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

人类是一个行走在两个世界的生物,他在洞穴的墙壁上留下了他精神朝圣的奇迹和噩梦般的经历。

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.

不知周之梦为胡蝶与?胡蝶之梦为周与?

You kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

你杀了所有的毛虫,然后抱怨没有蝴蝶。