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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
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I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.
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I do not teach children, I give them joy.
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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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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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To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
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All my lovers have been geniuses it's the one thing that I insist.
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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
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The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?
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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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These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
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I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
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Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'
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If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
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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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Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.
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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
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Memories are less tangible than dreams.
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