"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."

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Eleanora Duse

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“I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.”
“In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.”
“If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.”
“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most â€œintellectualâ€ piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”
“Life isn't about winning it's about what you learn and how much you can grow.”
“Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.”
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation.”
“I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.”

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