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About Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Pedro Calderon de la Barca was a 16th-century Spanish playwright, poet, and writer. Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for the many verse dramas he wrote for the theatre. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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“When love is not madness, it is not love.”
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Love Is Madness

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

“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
Morning Flowers Night

“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
God Law Bird

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
instincts

“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
Life Good Shadow
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