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There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Then Chameroy spoke. 'You always put the blame on opium, but as I see it the case of Freneuse is much more complicated. Him, an invalid? No - a character from the tales of Hoffmann! Have you never taken the trouble to look at him carefully? That pallor of decay; the twitching of his bony hands, more Japanese than chrysanthemums; the arabesque profile; that vampiric emaciation - has all of that never given you cause to reflect? In spite of his supple body and his callow face Freneuse is a hundred thousand years old. That man has lived before, in ancient times under the reigns of Heliogabalus, Alexander IV and the last of the Valois. What am I saying? That man is Henri III himself. I have in my library an edition of Ronsard - a rare edition, bound in pigskin with metal trimmings - which contains a portrait of Henri engraved on vellum. One of these nights I will bring the volume here to show you, and you may judge for yourselves. Apart from the ruff, the doublet and the earrings, you would believe that you were looking at the Due de Freneuse. As far as I'm concerned, his presence here inevitably makes me ill - and so long as he is present, there is such an oppression, such a heaviness... ~ Jean Lorrain
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Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. ~ Ninette De Valois
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SWEETEST IN THE GALE
by
Michelle Valois

After Emily Dickinson

You won't lose your hair, I heard at the start of treatment, and though I didn't, I lost a litany of other lesser and greater luxuries - saliva, stamina, taste buds, my voice - but my hair, during that chilly sojourn in the land of extremity to which I had sailed on a strange and stormy sea, my hair was not taken from me.

Had it been, I would have perched one of those 18th century wigs on my head, such as those worn by the French aristocracy, measuring three, four, even five feet high and stuffed, as they were known to be, with all sorts of things: ribbons, pearls, jewels, flowers, tunes without words, reproductions of great sailing vessels, my soul inside a little bird cage - ornaments selected to satisfy a theme: the signs of the Zodiac (à la Zodiaque) or the discovery of a new vaccine (à l'inoculation) or, as was the case in June of 1782, the first successful hot air balloon flight by the brothers Michel and Etienne Montgolfier.

Regarde, I exclaim to my ladies in waiting, pointing to the sky on that bright afternoon as the balloon, made of linen and paper, rises some 6,000 feet. Later, a duck, then a sheep, and finally a human is carried away. I watch, inspired, hopeful, whispering, lest my doctors overhear: when the storm turns sore, and that little bird escapes her little bird cage and is abashed without reckoning, I will sail away in my balloon, prepared, ~ Michelle Valois
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Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. ~ Ninette De Valois
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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. ~ Marguerite De Valois
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Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd ~ Margaret Of Valois
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No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. ~ Marguerite De Valois
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Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Distrust ... is the beginning of hatred. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ~ Ninette De Valois
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The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. ~ Ninette De Valois
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First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Delta glanced at the artwork, the leather-bound books in the glass-fronted bookshelves, the fresh flowers in assorted vases.
"This is stunning," she said, moved by the beauty all around her. "Your home is beautiful."
Valois squeezed her hand in acknowledgement. "Thank you. You'll fit right in then. ~ Brooke Templar
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Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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So it takes years to make a solid company. ~ Ninette De Valois
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...The underlying motive for the French wars [of 1562-1598] was not religious, but dynastic. By the mid-16th century, the Valois family of kings, who had ruled France since 1328, was losing its grasp on political power. Valois King Henry II died in 1559, leaving four sons, all too young or too feeble to rule alone, and three rival noble families, all eager to seize power. One, the Guise (who had married into the royal family), were Catholic; their enemies, the Bourbon and the (more moderate) Montmerency, were Protestant. The Bourbon, in particular, were supported by the many small local Protestant churches that had been set up in France by supporters of Calvin's teachings. Unlike Protestants in England or Germany, they were not controlled by powerful rulers or city councils; some were prepared to use violence and other forms of lawlessness to further Protestant reform. Concerned by this threat to public order, and continuing the Valois' kings generally hostile policy toward reform, in 1562 the Guise ordered the massacre of 74 Protestants at a church service. ~ Fiona MacDonald
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Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. ~ Ninette De Valois
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There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. ~ Ninette De Valois
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You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone. ~ Ninette De Valois
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You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. ~ Marguerite De Valois
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Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. ~ Ninette De Valois
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The Frenchman showed her a great deal of Paris that day, saying over lunch at a café that it was impossible to see everything of interest in so short a time. "And of course the sights are only one aspect; there's also the theatre, the markets, clubs, festivals, gardens and much more."

Delta smiled dreamily; it sounded wonderful.

Enjoying her smile, Valois gave her cheek a playful caress. "If I try hard enough, you may never want to leave. ~ Brooke Templar
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Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are. ~ Margaret Of Valois
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And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. ~ Ninette De Valois
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Love is not nonsense. It is everything. For without love what is a man? Just an empty shell. – Sir Lindsay Crawford (fellow knight/friend of hero, Troye de Valois) ~ Catherine March
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All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. ~ Ninette De Valois
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No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress. ~ Ninette De Valois
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