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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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. – Havelock Ellis

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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – 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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Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. – Source Unknown

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. – Terri Guillemets

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