“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal's real.”
—
Cao Xueqin
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book
Dream of the Red Chamber
Jia zuo zhen shi zhen yi jia,
Wu wei you chu you huan wu.
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 5
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假作真时真亦假，无为有处有还无。
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