What is life? A madness What is life? Illusion, a shadow, a… - Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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What is life? A madness
What is life? Illusion,
a shadow, a fiction,
and the greatest good means little;
for life is but a dream,
and the dreams, they too are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca (January 17, 1600 – May 25, 1681) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.

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Alternative Names: Pedro Calderon de la Barca • Calderon de la Barca

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The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed.

Pues el delito mayor
Del hombre es haber nacido.

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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