obrar hacer bien, pues no se pierde
el hacer bien aun en sueños[54]
But are good deeds really not lost? Did Calderón know? And he added:
Acudamos a lo eterno
que es la fama vividora
donde ni duermen las dichas
no las grandezas reposan[55]
Is it really so? Did Calderón know?
Calderón had faith, robust Catholic faith; but for him who lacks faith, for him who cannot believe in what Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca believed, there always remains the attitude of Obermann.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory; let us fight against it quixotically.