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.

¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción,
y el mayor bien es pequeño;
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son.

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/ What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, : A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. : The greatest good's but little, and this life: Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams. (Spanish wikisource translated by Roy Campbell)

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