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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
Isadora Duncan
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Isadora Duncan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 27
Died: 1927
Died: September 14
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Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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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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These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
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Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.
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With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
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You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
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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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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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People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
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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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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
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To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
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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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Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.
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Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
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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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I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
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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 finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
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I do not teach children, I give them joy.
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