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All my lovers have been geniuses it's the one thing that I insist.

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
Insist
Lovers
Genius
Thing
Geniuses

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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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If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
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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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People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
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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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For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.
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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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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
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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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