QuoteAges 12–13 · The Hero's Journey
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals.”
— Hamlet (William Shakespeare), 1601
Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. A passage that the Renaissance loved and modernity returns to.
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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