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304 y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños sueño son. The mechanical artificiality of Calderón does not escape Farinelli:

So far as thought is concerned, the drama contains merely repetitions and amplifications of the very ancient idea that life is a dream. So far as poetry is concerned—there is none. The search for poetry reveals this one bit of ingenuous cynicism, which some follower of Nietzsche might take for his motto: