Isadora Duncan Quotes

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People do not live nowadays. They get about ten percent out of life.

Isadora Duncan

I could have played the part of Saint Joan. I ought to have played it. I have the ample figure, the hardy physique of a farm-servant. Joan was a buxom creature. Yet she is always played by thin little actresses.

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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

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One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

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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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It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

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All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live is to love — to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

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Born: May 26, 1877

Died: September 14, 1927 (aged 50)

Bio: Angela Isadora Duncan was an American dancer. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe.

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