Isadora Duncan Short Quotes

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

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The harmony of music exists equally with the harmony of movement in nature.

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There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

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A woman who has known but one man is like a person who has heard only one composer.

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It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

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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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Man has not invented the harmony of music. It is one of the underlying principles of life.

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

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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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So that ends my first experience with matrimony, which I always thought a highly overrated performance.

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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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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 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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These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

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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.

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To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

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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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I could not adopt him so I married him. You know how wonderful he is, like all Russians. He starts reciting verse at two o'clock in the morning.

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My Art is just an effort to express the truth of my Being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true 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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I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

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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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The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

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