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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.

Dreams

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Life is described as something chaotic and unreal, like a fleeting image or a tale that lacks true substance. The highest value or happiness we can achieve is very limited because everything we experience is ultimately as insubstantial and uncertain as a dream within another dream.

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