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![“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment…” quote by Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/897/tom-stoppard-437_fitness_guil-it-hamlet-s-madness-really-boils-do_2457780.jpg)
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