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I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

Isadora Duncan

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Isadora Duncan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 27
Died: 1927
Died: September 14
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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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What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life
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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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Movements are as eloquent as words.
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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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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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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
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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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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
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Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.
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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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No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
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