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To be, or not to be: that is the question.
Hamlet, Hamlet · William Shakespeare
In plain English

To live, or to die — that is what I am really asking.

What it means

Hamlet weighs existence itself: is it nobler to endure suffering or to end it? The soliloquy is not really about a single decision to die but about whether the fear of the unknown — 'what dreams may come' — is the only thing that keeps any of us bearing life at all.

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