To be or not to be, that is the question: to go on living, fighting against this sea of troubles, or to die and end everything? Why be afraid of death? To die is to sleep, no more. Perhaps to dream? Yes, that's the problem: in that sleep of death, what dreams will come? Isaac Marion
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Hamlet is a play written by Shakespeare. The quote above was spoken by Hamlet. Hamlet, who is played by Alan Rickman, was already dead. But he could not accept the fact that he died so young and so suddenly without having lived his life to the fullest.

The great character who was one of the greatest philosophers of all time, shares the story of his life with us. He tells us that he died, but that he could have lived much further. He says that it's better to be dead than to live in misery and regret.

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