A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty–and, by which definition, a philosopher–dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Tom Stoppard
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