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Eleonora Duse Quotes
Page 1 of 1 | Eleonora Duse
October 3, 1858 - April 21, 1924
Nationality: Italian
Category: Actress
Subcategory: Italian Actress
| Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and began acting as a child. Both her father and her grandfather were actors, and she joined the troupe at age four.
Due to poverty, she initially worked continually, traveling from city to city with whichever troupe her family was currently engaged. She came to fame in Italian versions of roles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt.
She gained her first major success in Europe, then toured South America, Russia and the United States; beginning the tours as a virtual unknown but leaving in her wake a general recognition of her genius.
While she made her career and fame performing in the theatrical "warhorses" of her day, she is today remembered more for her association with the plays of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen. |  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. | | I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. | | 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. | | 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. | | If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that! | | To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art. | | When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves. |
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