Gaston Leroux Quotes

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• 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 redeems me.

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  Men, Hatred, Opera

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• Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

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  Night, Soul

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• 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.

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  Wicked, Cry, Wanted

  Gaston Leroux (2015). “The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance”, p.182, 谷月社

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• Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

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  Dies

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• 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 will never, never leave you!

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  Love You, Feet, Made

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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, 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 entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost.

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  Heart, Play, Unhappy

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.201, e-artnow

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• In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

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  Paris, Balls, France Paris

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

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• 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.

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  Sadness, Boredom, Joy

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

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• 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 remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.

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  Running, Tears, Together

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.195, e-artnow

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• He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.

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  Heart, Angel, Night

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• There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

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  Innocence, Hateful, Seems

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• Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!

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  Blood, Ghost, Good Things

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.105, e-artnow

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• 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!

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  Beautiful, Kissing, Dying

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.193, e-artnow

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• why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

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  Men, Mets, Knows

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• Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.

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  People, And Love, Kind

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “GOTHIC CRIME MYSTERIES – Premium Collection: The Phantom of the Opera, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Secret of the Night, The Man with the Black Feather & Balaoo: Thriller Classics”, p.814, e-artnow

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• A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

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  Hands, Twenties, Opera

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• 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.

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  Sunday, People, Wife

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• No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

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  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Gaston Leroux (2015). “The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance”, p.110, 谷月社

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• An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

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  Flower, Rooms, Ought

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• I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!

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  Mean, Keys, Giving

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• Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

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  People, Unhappy, Not Sure

  Gaston Leroux (2015). “The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance”, p.109, 谷月社

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• All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

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  Wanted

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• 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 for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

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  Love You, Mad, Laughing

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• I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!

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  Wicked

  Gaston Leroux (2015). “The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance”, p.182, 谷月社

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• Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

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  Beautiful, Children, Tired

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