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The Tempest · 1623
We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Shakespeare's speaker calls people the same material as dreams. Our short lives, he says, end in sleep. It's a gentle, slightly wistful way of saying life is brief and almost as insubstantial as a dream.
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