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01Undated

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

Eleonora Duse / quote

02Undated

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 / quote

03Undated

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 / quote

04Undated

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 / quote

05Undated

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Eleonora Duse / quote

06Undated

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

Eleonora Duse / quote