Eleanora Duse Quotes

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• I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
• If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!
• I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
• To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
• The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that…
• All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
• When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make…
• We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come…
• Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.
• Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a…
• The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move…
• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for…

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