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Eleonora Duse: If the sight...

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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 . . .

Source: In Actors on Acting, , part II, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich, 1970.
-- Eleonora Duse, (Oct 3 1858-1924), Italian actress; She was a famed trafedienne who made her debut in New Yord in 1893; was a great rival of Sarah Bernhardt.


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