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To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
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
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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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With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
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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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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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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
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What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
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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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You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
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Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
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I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
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Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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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 am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
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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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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 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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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
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