Quotes by Gaston Leroux - Page 1

The opera ghost really existed
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Ghost
Opera
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Hullo… the wall is a looking-glass!
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Glasses
Wall
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In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.
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Balls
France Paris
Paris
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We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.
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Ghost
Opera
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All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)
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I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!
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She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
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Chandeliers
Night
Singing
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Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest
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Angel
Blessed
Heaven
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Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!
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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
Earth
Heaven
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But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?
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Christine
Do You Love Me
Looking Good
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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
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An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
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Flower
Ought
Rooms
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When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.
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Forever
Love Me Forever
Phantoms
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Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind
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Angel
Quiver
Thrill
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There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.
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Hateful
Innocence
Seems
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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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Not Sure
People
Unhappy
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Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
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Gaston
Soul
Tonight
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Erik ! Erik! I saved your life! Remember!You were sentenced to death! But for me, you would be dead now!
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Remember You
Remembers You
Would Be
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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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I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.
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Girl
Men
Voice
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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
Knows
Mets
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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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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.
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Empires
Heart
World
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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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Cry
Wanted
Wicked
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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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Feet
Love You
Made
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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
Opera
Twenties
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Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.
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Beautiful
Noses
People
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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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And Love
Kind
People
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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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Boredom
Joy
Sadness
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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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Angel
Heart
Night
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...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 trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!
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Girl
Eye
Voice
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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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They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.
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Children
Heart
Hurt
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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
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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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Laughing
Love You
Mad
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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.
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Care
Looks
Shadow
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The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.
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Children
Heart
Sky
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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.
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Eye
Mother
Sleep
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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
Dying
Kissing
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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.
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Angel
Children
Heart
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The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.
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Artist
Mother
Real
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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
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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 the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera
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Eye
Forever
Voice
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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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People
Sunday
Wife
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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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Giving
Keys
Mean
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