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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!”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“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.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.”
― Phantom
― Phantom
“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.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
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