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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.

Zhuangzi
Inspirational, Dream, Wisdom
'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2
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.