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The Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao; the name can be named, but it is not named. Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth, Named, the mother of all things. Therefore, always have no desire in order to observe its wonderfulness, and always have desire in order to observe its pleasure. These two have the same origin but different names. They are both called xuan. Everyone in the world knows that beauty is beautiful, but it is evil; everyone knows that it is good, but this is not good. There is the mutual generation of existence and non-being, the mutual complementation of difficult and easy, the mutual punishment of long and short, the mutual complementation of high and low, the harmony of sounds, the succession and constancy of each other. Therefore, the sage dwells in doing things without doing anything and teaching without saying anything. Everything is done without starting, doing without ambition, and achieving success without dwelling on it. If you only live in Ephesus, you will go to Ephesus. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.