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.
Eleanora DuseTo save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
Eleanora Duse... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
Eleanora Duse