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41 " You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. "
― Gaston Leroux , The Phantom of the Opera
42 " None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. "
43 " I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see! "
― Gaston Leroux
44 " Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased. "
45 " Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous! "
46 " I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead! "
47 " Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her frock and her red shoes and her fiddle, but loved most of all, when she went to sleep, to hear the Angel of Music. "
48 " Our lives are one masked ball. "
49 " She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down! "
50 " 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 men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience. "
51 " But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine? "
52 " Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them! "
53 " Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,My spirit longs with thee to rest "
54 " 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 own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should. "
55 " why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing? "
56 " Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and in the end had to content himself with a cellar. Surely we must pity the Opera ghost! "
57 " When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever. "
58 " Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me. "
59 " ...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeksand the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in atrembling voice: “It’s the ghost! "
60 " No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all. "