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.”

“When I see a star, I don't think of it as a star, but as a fire. I see a fire that can warm me, a fire that can burn me.”

“I have been so unhappy, and I have been so happy. I have been so poor, and I have been so rich. I have been so loved, and I have been so hated.”

“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.”

“I do not know if I am a great actress, but I know this: I have suffered.”