“Poor poor boy, you must have had a terrible time. A victim of the modern age, just as she was. Poor poor poor girl.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“And the voice, the voice which I had recognized under the mask, was on its knees before me was a man! And I began to cry... The man, still kneeling, must have understood the cause of my tears, for he said, 'It is true, Christine!... I am not an Angel, nor a genius, nor a ghost... I am Erik!”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“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
“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.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who had the good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
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