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Macbeth says this, to the Doctor...or the Messenger. But it means that life is like a poor actor who stresses over his few lines, then dies and is never mentioned again. So while life is dispoable, items are not, they live much longer than a human's life, like a legacy. Life is meaningless, told by an idiot, full of noise and fury, which signifies nothing.

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