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    "title": "Chapter 20 — Alone, Differing From Others",
    "of": 81,
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    "text": "## Chapter 20\n\n\nWhen we renounce learning we have no troubles.\nThe (ready) 'yes,' and (flattering) 'yea;'--\nSmall is the difference they display.\nBut mark their issues, good and ill;--\nWhat space the gulf between shall fill?\n\nWhat all men fear is indeed to be feared; but how wide and without end\nis the range of questions (asking to be discussed)!\n\nThe multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a\nfull banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem\nlistless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of\ntheir presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look\ndejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of\nmen all have enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost\neverything. My mind is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of\nchaos.\n\nOrdinary men look bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be\nbenighted. They look full of discrimination, while I alone am dull\nand confused. I seem to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as\nif I had nowhere to rest. All men have their spheres of action, while\nI alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone\nam different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).",
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