Mata Hari

Everything is an illusion.

— Mata Hari

“It is unbelievable.”

— Mata Hari

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

— Mata Hari

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

— Mata Hari

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

— Mata Hari

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

— Mata Hari

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

— Mata Hari

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The…

— Mata Hari

I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I…

— Mata Hari

“I had long since lost any illusion of being loved for who I was and now accepted, with clean conscience, flowers, flattery,…

— Mata Hari