

(But How Do You Know That?)
By Zhuangzi [Chuang Tze]

Chinese text | Story | Classics
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One day Zhuangzi and Huizi are strolling on Bridge Hao. Zhuangzi : "Look how happy the fish are just swimming around in the river." Huizi : "How do you know they are happy? You are not a fish." Zhuangzi: "And you are not me. How do you know I don't know the fish are happy?"
Huizi: "Of course I'm not you, and I don't know what you think;
Zhuangzi: "Look, when you asked me how I knew the fish were happy,
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- ZhuangZi (369?-286? b.c.)
tr. Brian Bruya
