Eleonora Duse Quotes

“The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.”

“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 isolation from life.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish.”

“Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.”

“She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.”