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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) American dancer, choreographer
“Memoirs” (1924), This Quarter Magazine (1929-07/09)
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From the first chapter of her memoirs, dictated in Berlin but never completed. The phrase does not occur in her 1927 autobiography, My Life.
 
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If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.

Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) American dancer, choreographer
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It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) American dancer, choreographer
My Life, Introduction (1927)
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Don’t let them tame you!

Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) American dancer, choreographer
Curtain speech, Symphony Hall, Boston (1922)
 
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