Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Soliloquy


'To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause – there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.'


Hamlet, Act III, Sc I

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