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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

— Margot Fonteyn Thoughts from Earth (2004)

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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎ (1975)

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.

Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎ (1975)

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations‎ (1988)

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎ (1975)

What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it.

Encyclopedia of World Biography (1998)

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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