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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

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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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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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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The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise
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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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I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.
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People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
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What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life
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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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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
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The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.
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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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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
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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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All my lovers have been geniuses it's the one thing that I insist.
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
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Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.
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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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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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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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