Gaston Leroux Quotes

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• The opera ghost really existed
• Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind
• Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
• Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!
• Hullo… the wall is a looking-glass!
• ...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a…
• 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…
• She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
• 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!... She…
• Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.
• If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love…
• I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!
• Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of…
• 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, crying…
• And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her…
• All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)
• Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
• You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and…
• Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than…
• Everybody knows that orthopedic science provides beautiful false noses for people who have lost their noses naturally or as a result of an operation.

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