'Nijinsky's life can be simply summed up: ten years of growth, ten years of learning, ten years of dancing, thirty years of darkness. Altogether some sixty years. How long he will live on in people's memories, we can only guess.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- This quote summarizes Nijinsky's life into periods of growth, learning, dancing, and decline, ending with uncertainty about his legacy.
- In plain terms
- His life had decades of learning and dancing followed by many years of hardship.
- What can you take from it?
- Legacy is unpredictable even after a life of great achievement.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you want to be remembered?
- What defines a life well lived?
Another view
It presents a reductive view of a complex life into neat decades.
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