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|image=Giuseppe Verdi by Giovanni Boldini.jpg

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|caption=Giuseppe Verdi. Portrait by Giovanni Boldini, 1886

|quote=I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

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