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We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
- A line from the play The Tempest , by William Shakespeare ; it continues, “and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.” It is spoken by the magician Prospero. He has just made a large group of spirits vanish and is reminding his daughter and her fiancé that mortal life also ends quickly.
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