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We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
Wei Wu Wei
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Wei Wu Wei
Born: 1895
Born: September 14
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Felixstowe
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Terence Gray
Terence James Gray
Terence James Stannus Gray
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