Eleonora Duse , was an Italian actress, often known simply as Duse.
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“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 you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
Eleanora Duse
“When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.”
“I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.”
“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 the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
“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 isolation from life.”