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You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Isadora Duncan

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Isadora Duncan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 27
Died: 1927
Died: September 14
Autobiographer
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Screenwriter
San Francisco County
California
The Foolish Virgin
Aĭsedora Dunkan
Izadora Dënkan
A. Dunkan
Angela Duncan
Dora Angela Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncan
Tame
Sensual
Wild
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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
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The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.
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People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
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Memories are less tangible than dreams.
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Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
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Eleonora Duse said, Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick, and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said Cease to grieve, but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.
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I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.
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I do not teach children, I give them joy.
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
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The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.
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Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.
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No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
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Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
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All my lovers have been geniuses it's the one thing that I insist.
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