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“It’s the ghost!”
so it begins
there had been nothing discussed at the Opera but this ghost in dress-clothes who stalked about the building, from top to bottom, like a shadow, who spoke to nobody, to whom nobody dared speak and who vanished as soon as he was seen, no one knowing how or where.
I sing only for you!”
“Your soul is a beautiful thing, child,” replied the grave man’s voice, “and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.”
If you wish to live in peace, you must not begin by taking away my private box.
he really said ‘it’s on sight!’
No one ever sees the Angel; but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him.
Persons who are visited by the Angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind. And they can not touch an instrument, or open their mouths to sing, without producing sounds that put all other human sounds to shame.
You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked.
All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
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We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer!”
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
tragic villain erik </3
