Isadora Duncan Quotes - Page 4

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, People, Rich

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Writing, Men, Great Work

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Art, World

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• My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

  Isadora Duncan

  Ideas, Movement, Firsts

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity.

  Isadora Duncan

  Children, Believe, Men

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• It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

  Isadora Duncan

  Men, Thinking, Matter

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• People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Life, Women, Memorable

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• I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

  Isadora Duncan

  Night, Perfect, Theatre

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Tragedy, Might

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.224, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

  Isadora Duncan

  Grieving, Littles, Way

  "My Life (Revised and Updated)".

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• Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

  Isadora Duncan

  Men, Fellow Man, Revolution

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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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Girl, Children, Memories

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Firsts, Matrimony

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