Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouee.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- I go to seek a great perhaps, signaling the end of life's performance.
- In plain terms
- I am leaving to find what comes next as life ends.
- What can you take from it?
- Life is a play; death is the curtain call leading to mystery.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is your great perhaps?
- How do you view the end of life?
Another view
It treats death as a mere act rather than a biological fact.
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