Quotes from Mata Hari

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.