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QUOTATION:I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
ATTRIBUTION:Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), French general, emperor. Quoted in Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923).
 
 
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