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May one ask at least to what darkness you are returning? ... For what hell are you leaving, mysterious lady ... or for what paradise?

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

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?

Who was big and strong, like you, M. Richard, gave two blows to M. Isidore Saack, who was small and weak like M. Moncharmin,

Richard at once declared that we must be content with that and drop the subject. I agreed with Richard. All's well that ends well. What say you, O.G?

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

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

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

Nobody could see the ghost in his box, but everybody could hear him.

When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.

Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind

There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.

None will ever be true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows ...

Raoul, you shall not pass!

Christine, we will go from here together or die together. ~ Raoul

No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think
that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.

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.

For several months, there had been nothing discussed at the Opera but this ghost in dress-clothes who stalked about the building, from top to bottom,

He loved her so much that it almost took his breath away.

Everything that concerns you interests me greatly, as you will perhaps one day come to appreciate.

Tonight she's still wearing the gold ring, and you're not the one who gave it to her. Tonight she gave her soul again, but not to you.

Everybody knows that orthopedic science provides beautiful false noses for people who have lost their noses naturally or as a result of an operation.

One after the other, there came a series of incidents so curious and so inexplicable that the very shrewdest people began to feel uneasy.

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.

I say, 'Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,
and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!

He looked up in despair at the starry sky, he struck his burning chest with his fist; he loved and he was not loved!

But you would have lots of fun with me. For instance, I am the the greatest ventriloquist that ever lived, I am the first ventriloquist in the world!

I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf

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

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.

THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED.

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

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

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

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!

Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing?

I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!

The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was "natural suicide." In

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!

Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.

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

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

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

Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest

As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.

He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love.

Raoul," she said, "forget THE MAN'S VOICE and do not even remember its name ... You must never try to fathom the mystery of THE MAN'S VOICE.

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

[He] prepared to forget his distress by flinging himself ... into 'the vortex of pleasure.

Destiny has chained you to me forever!

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.

Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.

Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give
you my lips! Take them, for the first time and the last.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.