Isadora Duncan Quotes

• Farewell, my friends. I am going to glory!

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• You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you.

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• While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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• We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

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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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  Tags in School, Long, Real

• The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

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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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  Tags in Child, Feet

• The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

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  Tags in Body

• So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

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  Tags in Thought

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

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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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  Tags in Person, Different, Mad

• My motto – sans limites.

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  Tags in Motto

• Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

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  Tags in Today, Human, Through

• 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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• It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

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  Tags in Writing

• 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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  Topics in Art, Love

  Tags in Buddha

• With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

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  Tags in Mom

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

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  Tags in Contract, Reads, Woman, Deserves, Intelligent, Marriage, Consequences

• What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

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  Tags in Print, Understand

• People do not live nowadays – they get about ten percent out of life.

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Isadora Duncan (20)

Birth:	27th May, 1877
Death:	14th September, 1927
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Choreographer, Dancer

About

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 after being exiled from the United States for her pro-Soviet sympathies.

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