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Zhuangzi Quotes: The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
         

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?


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