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Zhuangzi: Someone lost, who does not know the way home

18 October 2006

How can I know if one afraid of death is not like someone lost, who does not know the way home?

--Zhang Wuzi 長吾子 in the chapter "Discussion of the arrangement of things" 齊物論 from the inner chapters 內篇 of Zhuangzi 莊子 (ca 370-301 B.C.).

予惡乎知惡死之非弱喪而不知歸者邪！

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Zhuangzi: Someone lost, who does not know the way home

18 October 2006

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