All Isadora Duncan Quotes
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
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Marriage
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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?
Isadora Duncan
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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.
Isadora Duncan
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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.
Isadora Duncan
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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.
Isadora Duncan
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora Duncan
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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.
Isadora Duncan
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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan
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People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
Isadora Duncan
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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan
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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan
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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
Isadora Duncan
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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.
Isadora Duncan
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