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• I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Crush, Children, Joy

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

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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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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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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• When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Should Have, Tragedy

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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