Zhuangzi — "You are not I. How do you know I don't know the happiness of fish?"
You are not I. How do you know I don't know the happiness of fish?
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Dialogue with Huizi on the Hao River, Zhuangzi (Chapter 17)
Date: 4th Century BCE
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