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“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

“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 laid at my feet his immense, tragic love.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“لم أطلب سوى القليل من الحياة، وحتى ذلك القليل رفضَت الحياة منحي إياه. طلبتُ حزمة من ضوء الشمس، حقلاً، القليل من السكينة مع قليل من الخبز، ألا تثقل علي كثيراً معرفتي بأنني موجود، وألا أطلب من الآخرين شيئاً وألا يطالبونني هم بأي شيء.”
― فرناندو بيسوا, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition