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It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

Ruth St. Denis

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Ruth St. Denis
Age: 89 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 20
Died: 1968
Died: July 21
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Newark
New Jersey
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We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us
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I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
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But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.
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We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
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It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.
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I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.
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How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?
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Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
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It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.
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I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
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every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.
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