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> [Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/poor-unhappy-erik-shall-we-pity-him-shall-we-curse-him-he-asked-only/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

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> [He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/he-had-a-heart-that-could-have-held-the-entire-empire-of-the-world/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

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## More by Gaston Leroux

> [“Possibly, I too shall take the train at that station one day, and go and seek around thy lakes, O Norway, O silent Scandinavia...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/possibly-i-too-shall-take-the-train-at-that-station-one-day-and-go/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/erik-erik-i-saved-your-life-remember-you-were-scentenced-to-death-but/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/persons-visited-by-the-angel-quiver-with-a-thrill-unknown-to-the-rest/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [“A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/a-ghost-who-bleeds-is-less-dangerous/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/she-s-singing-to-night-to-bring-the-chandelier-down/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/now-i-want-to-live-like-everybody-else-i-want-to-have-a-wife-like/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [“There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/there-is-a-terrible-mystery-around-us-a-mystery-much-more-to-be/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/he-stared-dully-at-the-desolate-cold-road-and-the-pale-dead-night/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [“Surely, if his heart continued to make such a noise, they would hear it inside, they would open the door and the young man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/surely-if-his-heart-continued-to-make-such-a-noise-they-would-hear-it/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/i-tore-off-my-mask-so-as-not-to-lose-one-of-her-tears-and-she-did-not/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [“No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/no-no-you-have-driven-me-mad-when-i-think-that-i-had-only-one-object/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/know-that-it-is-a-corpse-who-loves-you-and-adores-you-and-will-never/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [“He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/he-fills-me-with-horror-and-i-do-not-hate-him-how-can-i-hate-him/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [“with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/with-an-ordinary-face-he-would-have-been-one-of-the-most/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

> [“The voice without a body went on singing, and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-leroux/the-voice-without-a-body-went-on-singing-and-certainly-raoul-had/)

[Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-leroux/)

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