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Quote by Isadora Duncan
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan

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Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan

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Dance, Dancing
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Isadora Duncan
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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

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Isadora Duncan
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