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Quote by Havelock Ellis
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of th

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis

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We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. – Havelock Ellis

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Charm – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm. – Havelock Ellis

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We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. – D.H. Lawrence

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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. – John Wain

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I would like to dance. Not professionally, just when everyone else does. – Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot, 1997

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Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. – John Northbrooke

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