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“Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“و لو أني أصغيت إلى صوت الفطرة و تركت البداهة تقودني لأعفيت نفسي
من عناء الجدل .. و لقادتني الفطرة إلى الله .. و لكنني جئت في زمن
تعقد فيه كل شيء و ضعف صوت الفطرة حتى صار همسا وارتفع صوت العقل حتى صار لجاجة وغرورا واعتدادا”
― مصطفى محمود, رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان

“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.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“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.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera