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01Undated

When love is not madness it is not love.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca / quote

02Undated

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

Pedro Calderón de la Barca / quote

03Undated

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

Pedro Calderón de la Barca / quote

04Undated

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confessAn unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akinIn missing each that salutory reinOf reason, and the grinding will of man.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca / quote

05Undated

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca / quote