Music makes me forget myself, ...

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn\'t my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don\'t really feel, of understanding things I don\'t understand, being able to do things I\'m not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?
 Leo Tolstoy

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