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Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes
Page 1 of 1Pedro Calderon de la Barca
January 17, 1600 - May 25, 1681
Nationality: Spanish
Category: Dramatist
|  For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. | | When love is not madness, it is not love. Topics: Love | | But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. | | 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. | | Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. | | What is life? A madness. 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. Topics: Life | | For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. | | One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. | | 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. | | What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? | | Love that is not madness is not love. Topics: Love |
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