Quotes of Eleonora Duse - somelinesforyou

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ 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 art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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 to digest their dinner. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. ”

- Eleonora Duse
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