To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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