There is always one more idiot than you counted on.

 

There is always one more idiot than you counted on.

 

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They say, "Han-shan is an idiot."
"Am I really an idiot:" I reflect.
But my reflections fail to solve the question:
for I myself do not know who the self is,
And how can others know who I am?

 

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