"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
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William Shakespeare in Macbeth (c.1605), Act V, Sc. V; Macbeth after the death of his wife
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