110 Quotes by Gaston Leroux


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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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    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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    I am dying of love. That is how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still... and am dying of love for her. – I kissed her alive... and she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead.

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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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    I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.

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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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