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Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes

Type:
Dramatist Quotes
Category:
Quotes
Date of Birth:
January 17, 1600
Date of Death:
May 25, 1681
Nationality:
Spanish
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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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.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca



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