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“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
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“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
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“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”
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“Real men don't lift weights, they lift women.”
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“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”
― Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
― Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
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