"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."
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"Dance... enjoy each step along the way."
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"Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great."
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"Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
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"I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth."
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"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
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"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."
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"If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing."
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"See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers."
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"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
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"In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve."
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"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
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"Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are."
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"It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind."
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"The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance."
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"The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry."
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"The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God."
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"You Jig, you amble, and you lisp."
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"I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten."
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