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So, remember Hamlet. People--you've all studied Hamlet, "To be or not to be."
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That's all I know but basically he was deciding-- he--I wrote this down though.
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He was deciding whether or not to kill himself and so he made up two lists.
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The lists of reasons to kill himself were
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"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," "A sea of troubles,"
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and "The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to."
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He only had one argument not to kill himself: nightmares.
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"To sleep, perchance to dream, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come
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when we have shuffled off this mortal coil might give us pause."
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He was worried about nightmares.
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Now, dreams have always fascinated people and philosophers.
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If you take a philosophy course, there'll be a couple of questions about dreams