I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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