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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

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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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
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I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.
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Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!
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All my lovers have been geniuses it's the one thing that I insist.
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