Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre...
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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
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What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
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No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
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The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
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If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
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They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
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The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
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A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
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At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.