Author: de la Barca, Pedro Calderón

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• Domingo Zapata (1)
  • IN: Beautiful Dream Life (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The king dreams he is a king, And in this delusive way Lives and rules with sovereign sway; All the cheers that round him ring, Born of air, on air take wing. And in ashes (mournful fate!) Death dissolves his pride and state: Who would wish a crown to take, Seeing that he must awake In the dream beyond death's gate?... 'Tis a dream that I in sadness Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed a light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams.
    FROM: Life is a Dream (trans. by Edward Fitzgerald), (1635), NULL, Spain