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Quote by Isadora Duncan
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the contin

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

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